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Leaves towards base of shoot 4·5–7·5 cm. × 1·5–4·0 mm., linear or linear-lanceolate; sheath 3–6 mm. long; upper leaves smaller, grading into bracts.
Flowering shoots 40–110 cm. high, ± virgate, often branched near base, leafy below, terminating in a branched inflorescence.
Slender erect or semi-decumbent glabrous herb with a narrowly turbinate, woody tap-root and short, branched, woody stem.
Calyx bracts 6–10, investing lower half of calyx, uppermost elliptic or narrowly elliptic, acute or acuminate.
Petal-lamina pink or pale purple, 3·6 × c. 3 mm., obovate, rounded, entire, crenulate or shallowly dentate.
Calyx 1·5–2·4 cm. × 2·5–5·0 mm., narrowly elliptic, lobes c. 4 mm. long, lanceolate.
