Perennial herb, producing numerous irregularly-shaped, finger-like tubers. Stems tufted or somewhat diffuse, branched, puberulous. Leaves elliptic-ovate or sometimes elliptic-lanceolate, 5-15 x 3-8 mm, usually shortly petiolate, somewhat fleshy, glabrous or with few short hairs, mainly on margin. Flowers solitary, extra-axillary; pedicels 10-20 mm long, tightly recurved, puberulous. Sepals lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 3-4 mm long. Corolla divided about 3/4 to base, more or less 20 mm diam., dull purple-brown outside, mottled red on mustard-yellow within; tube shortly campanulate, 3-5 mm long; lobes from ovate-lanceolate base tapering to apex, 7-10 mm long; margin with long soft hairs mainly towards the sinuses. Corona very slightly stipitate, membranous, cupular to campanulate at base, forming 5 pockets with narrowly U-or V-shaped margin extending into 2 short teeth, confluent laterally with inner lobes; inner lobes incumbent on backs of anthers and nearly meeting over staminal column, with or without a small basal tooth. Pollinia subryriform, ±0.3 mm long, with a translucent inner margin, attached to carrier by very short caudicles; carrier with small lateral wings. Follicles cylindric, ±25 mm long.
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