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Rootstock producing a cluster of fleshy, cylindric roots. Stems prostrate, creeping, rooting at nodes, sparingly branched, slightly striate; internodes generally 4-8 mm long. Leaves fleshy, glabrous, petiole rarely up to 10 mm long; blade ovate-elliptic or orbicular, up to 40 x 25 mm, acute or apiculate. Peduncles arising singly, extra-axillary, up to 10 mm long, stout, 1-3-flowered, developed successively; pedicels up to 30 mm long, 2-2.5 mm thick. Sepals linear-lanceolate, 4-6 mm long. Corolla 55-80 mm long; tube 40-55 mm long, with a slightly 5-angled basal inflation 13-17 mm long, 5-7 mm diam., then contracted to 3 mm and expanding gradually to about 15 mm diam. at mouth, softly hairy within inflation, pale greenish white with purple dots and splotches, intensified towards mouth. Corona united at base, forming 5 shallow pockets with slightly spreading outer margin and confluent with base of inner lobes; inner lobes incumbent-erect, linear, 4 mm long, pale yellowish green.
