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Perennial herb with woody tuber; stems 5-35 cm long, prostrate, decumbent or erect; stems, leaves and calyx hispid, scabrous or pilose, at times additionally stipitate-glandular. Leaves up to 8(12) cm long, oblanceolate, lanceolate, elliptic, oblong or ovate, apex acute or obtuse, cuneate at base, variously toothed. Flowers solitary or in racemes. Pedicels 2-30(50) mm long, axillary or supra-axillary. Bracteoles (1)2-15 mm long, subulate, filiform, linear or lanceolate, inserted on pedicel close to calyx or sometimes adnate to base of calyx tube. Calyx 8-75 mm long, short-or long-tubular, rarely campanulate in flower, campanulate to urceolate in fruit; tube 5-60 mm long, 3-13 mm broad, ribbed, at times subplicate between ribs; lobes 5, equal or unequal, 3-15 mm long, narrowly triangular, ovate or lanceolate. Corolla white or pink; tube 30-95 mm long, straight, occasionally slightly gibbous above middle, glandular without; limb 25-70(90) mm in diam. Filaments of shorter stamens 3-13 mm long, of the longer 6-17 mm long. Anthers 4-7 mm long. Ovary 2-5 mm long, ovoid, somewhat compressed. Style 6-30 mm long including compressed stigma. Berry 12-24 x 10-12 mm, globose to ovoid.
Perennial herb, parasite, 0.06-0.15 m high; stem decumbent, scabrous, hispid. Leaves 70 x 30 mm, subsessile, opposite, lanceolate or elliptic, roughly hairy, apex acute or obtuse, margins incise-dentate. Inflorescence a raceme; flowers large, axillary, white, turn blue-black when bruised. Calyx 8-75 mm long, tubular, campanulate to urceolate in fruit; tube mostly subplicate between ribs; lobes narrowly triangular, ovate. Corolla occasionally slightly gibbous above middle; tube cylindrical, funnel-shaped at apex, externally shaggy with glandular hairs, internally pubescent; throat yellow. Stamens inserted; filaments yellow, puberulous; anthers obtuse at base, glabrous. Ovary ovoid, compressed; stigma compressed. Flowering time Sept.-Dec.
Calyx 8–75 mm. long, short-or long-tubular, rarely campanulate in flower, campanulate to urceolate in fruit; tube 5–60 mm. long, 3–13 mm. broad, ribbed, at times subplicate between ribs; lobes, 5, equal or unequal, 3–15 mm. long, narrowly triangular, ovate or lanceolate.
Perennial herb with woody tuber; stems 5–35 cm. long, prostrate, decumbent or erect; stems, leaves and calyx hispid, scabrous or pilose, at times additionally stipitate-glandular.
Bracteoles (1)2–15 mm. long, subulate, filiform, linear or lanceolate, inserted on pedicel close to calyx or sometimes adnate to base of calyx tube.
Corolla white or pink; tube 30–95 mm. long, straight, occasionally slightly gibbous above middle, glandular without; limb 25–70(90) mm. in diam.
Leaves up to 8(12) cm. long, oblanceolate, lanceolate, elliptic, oblong or ovate, apex acute or obtuse, cuneate at base, variously toothed.
Filaments of shorter stamens 3–13 mm. long, of the longer 6–17 mm. long.
Pedicels 2–30(50) mm. long, axillary or supra-axillary.
Style 6–30 mm. long including compressed stigma.
Ovary 2–5 mm. long, ovoid, somewhat compressed.
Berry 12–24 x 10–12 mm., globose to ovoid.
Flowers solitary or in racemes.
Anthers 4–7 mm. long.
