Erect herb, robust, scabrid-puberulous or nearly glabrous, 1-4 ft. high, dusky when dried, simple or sparingly branched, apparently perennial; stem somewhat angular, furrowed, leafy; branches suberect, ascending or subdivaricate; leaves opposite or almost verticillate in threes or subopposite or the upper alternate, lanceolate, oblong or elliptical, acute or apiculate, wedge-shaped or somewhat narrowed towards the base, sessile or subsessile, subentire to incise-dentate, 1-3 in. long, 1/10-1 in. broad; flowers rather numerous, pink or white, 7/8-1 1/4 in. long; racemes terminal; pedicels short or up to 3/4 in. long; bracteoles 2, sublinear, filiform or subulate, 1/6-1/3 in. long, adnate to the base of the calyx; calyx prismatic-cylindrical, 10-ribbed, turbinate at the base, 5-dentate, nearly glabrous or hispid-scabrid at least along the ribs and margin, 3/4-1 in. long, 1/8-1/6 in. in diam.; tube straight, 1/2-3/4 in. long lying close to the corolla-tube; teeth lanceolate, acute or acuminate, somewhat unequal, 1/8-1/4 in. long, somewhat spreading; corolla-tube subcylindrical, shortly exserted, curving near the apex, funnel-shaped at the apex, glabrous outside or nearly so, pilose within below, 7/8-1 1/8 in. long; limb spreading, 1 1/2-2 1/4 in. in diam.; lobes broadly obovate, 2/3-1 in. long, the two upper connate higher up than the rest; filaments bearded; anthers apiculate, obtuse at the base, glabrous; ovary fleshy, ovoid-conical; style about 1/6 in. long; stigma not much thickened.
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Perennial herb, parasite, 0.1-1.2 m high; stem erect, simple, ribbed. Leaves 80 x 20 mm, sessile, opposite or subopposite, lanceolate, rough, apex acute or apiculate, margins purple-red, dentate. Inflorescence a terminal raceme; flowers pink or white, solitary or in pairs, turn black when bruised. Calyx 12 mm long, nearly glabrous; lobes short, narrow; tips hooked; tube straight. Corolla pilose; tube subcylindrical, funnel-shaped, curving near apex, externally glabrous, internally pilose. Stamens with bearded filaments; anthers apiculate, glabrous. Ovary fleshy, ovoid-conical; stigma ± thickened. Flowering time Nov.-Mar.
Perennial, hemiparasitic herb, up to 0.7 m high; dusky when dry. Stems erect, unbranched, ribbed. Leaves sessile, opposite; blade narrowly ovate, oblong or elliptic, 80 x 20 mm, margins denticulate in upper half and purplish red. Flowers: in terminal racemes; corolla 16-30 mm long, pink; Nov.-Apr.
Erect, semiparasitic perennial herb, up to 0.7 m high, dusky when dry. Leaves lanceolate, oblong or elliptic, denticulate in upper half. Racemes terminal. Flowers 16-30 mm long, pink.
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