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Biennials with erect branches 50-150(-200) mm long, unbranched. Leaves lanceolate, 15-25(-30) x 8-13 mm, acute, becoming shorter below inflorescence, flat to somewhat grooved above, strongly convex below, glabrous or rarely with a few cilia towards base, grey-green to brown. Inflorescence a terminal cymose capitulum, scarcely hidden by upper leaves. Calyx: lobes narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, 3-4 mm long, rounded, with marginal cilia, fleshy and green above but somewhat thinner below. Corolla slender ampulliform, fused at base for 3-3.5 mm long, cream often tinged red; lobes narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, 9-13 mm long, with blunt beak. Stamens with yellow anthers. Squamae spathulate to T-shaped, 1-1.2 x 0.5-0.7 mm, truncate or slightly rounded, fleshy and red above and with a yellow almost membranous stalk.
Single-stemmed biennial, 20-150 mm tall. Leaves partially overlapping, sessile, lanceolate, flat and grooved above, strongly convex below, 15-25 x 8-13 mm, glabrous or with few marginal cilia. Flowers in a dense, terminal, rounded head, held close to leaves on a glabrous peduncle, flask-shaped, petals 9-13 mm long, fused in lower 3-3.5 mm, cream, often tinged red.
Biennial to 20 cm. Leaves opposite, closely imbricate, lanceolate. Flowers in a dense, terminal head, tubular, cream-coloured tinged red, petals 9-13 mm long.
