Stems coarse. Flowers membranous or somewhat fleshy, 4 mm long from the base to corolla sinuses, subsessile in scattered few-flowered clusters; sepals or-bicular-ovate, broadly overlapping, obtuse, fleshy in the median and lower parts, thin toward the edges, loose around the corolla, not reaching the corolla sinuses; corolla campanulate, the lobes about as long as the tube, broadly ovate, obtuse, basally auriculate and overlapping, upright to spreading; filaments subulate, flattened, longer than the anthers; infrastaminal scales prominent, reaching the anthers, oblong, apically fringed and sparingly fringed along the sides. Capsules depressed-globose, to 6 mm in diameter, the interstylar aperture large, sur-rounded by the withered corolla and circumscissile when mature; seeds ovoid, 2.5 mm long, the hilum oblong, oblique.
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