Perennial herb, taproot eventually thick and woody (c. 10 mm at crown), stems many from the crown, tufted, up to c. 600 mm long, 2 mm diam., simple or branching from the base, decumbent and rooting near the base, glabrous. Leaves glabrous, mostly 11-32 x 5-17 mm (ratio 2-3(-5):1), deltoid or deltoid-ovate, apex acute, base almost truncate to subcordate in larger leaves, margins sharply serrate, teeth few, mainly in the lower half; petiole 1-6 mm long. Flowers few to several in a lax terminal raceme, usually simple, sometimes branched at the base; bracts up to c. 4 x 3 mm, ovate, very acute, glandular-puberulous; pedicels mostly 12-35 mm long, ascending at an angle of c. 45°, they and the inflorescence rhachis glandular-puberulous, the single stalk cell very small. Calyx segments reflexed, lanceolate, the two anticous ones c. 3-4 x 1.5-2, three posticous ones slightly smaller, all green, glandular-puberulous. Corolla tube c. 6-7 mm long, invaginated, two lateral spurs c. 9-11 mm long, directed straight down or down and slightly out and then describing a broad V, with a patch of dark sessile glands within near the tips; limb c. 25 x 22-25 mm, anticous lobe c. 11-12 x 15-16, lateral lobes c. 7-9 x 9-11 mm, posticous lobes c. 5-7 x 6-7, all subrotund, all “salmon-pink” to “scarlet”, “brick-red” or “crimson-lake”, sparsely glandular-puberulous outside, usually glabrous inside, occasionally with a patch of dark short-stalked glands centrally placed on face of the slightly raised palate, the “window” concave, yellow and maroon. Stamens projecting forward; anthers c. 1 mm long, cohering strongly. Ovary c. 2 x 1.75 mm, deltoid in outline, ovules many in each loculus; style c. 2 mm long, stigma capitate. Capsules 9-17 x 5-6 mm, oblanceolate in outline; seeds c. 1.75 mm long, broadly winged, ribbed.
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Perennial herb, up to 0.9 m high. Stems tufted, simple or basally branched, decumbent, rooting near base. Leaves with blade ± deltoid, 11-32 x 5-17 mm, apex acute, base cordate to auriculate, margins nearly entire but dentate to denticulate; petioles up to 6 mm long. Flowers: in racemes, usually simple, sometimes branched at base; pedicels up to 35 mm long, ascending, glabrous with stalked glands; style 2 mm long; spurs ± 9-11 mm long, projecting down and out, forming a wide V-shape, window hollow; corolla lobes shades of pink and red, sometimes with dark glands on centre of palate; Dec.-Jun., mainly Mar.
Perennial herb, stems tufted, up to 900 mm high; simple or basally branched, decumbent, rooting near base. Leaves ± triangular, acute; petioles up to 6 mm long. Flowers in racemes, usually simple, sometimes branched at base; pedicels up to 35 mm long,ascending. Corolla: lobes shades of pink and red, sometimes with dark glands on centre of palate; window hollow. Spurs ± 9-11 mm long, projecting down and out, forming a wide V-shape. Flowering time Dec.-June, mainly Mar.
A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 90 cm tall. The stems are in tufts and develop roots near the base. The leaves are delta shaped and 1-3 cm long by 5-17 mm wide. The flowers are in groups.
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