Perennial herb, stems several from a thick woody stock, up to c. 450 mm tall, woody, simple below, branching above, glabrous. Leaves patent or ascending, mostly c. 20-40 x 2 mm, smaller upwards, linear-lanceolate, apex acute, base cuneate, margins entire, often strongly revolute, glabrous; petioles c. 1 mm long. Flowers few in lax terminal racemes, aggregated into leafy panicles; bracts up to c. 3 x 2.5 mm, ovate, shortly acuminate, glabrous; pedicels 5-10 mm long, filiform, glandular-puberulous, ascending at an angle of c. 45°. Calyx segments lanceolate, very acute, glandular-puberulous; anticous pair c. 2.25 x 1 mm, posticous ones slightly smaller. Corolla tube c. 2.25 mm long, not invaginated, two lateral spurs 3-4 mm long, spreading at right angles to the tube, with dark sessile glands within near the tip; limb c. 8-9 x 7-8 mm, anticous lobe c. 4 x 4 mm, lateral lobes 2 x 2.5 mm, posticous lobes 1.5-1.75 x 1.5-1.75 mm, all subrotund, sparsely glandular hairy outside, glabrous inside, “bright pink”, “window” shallowly concave. Stamens erect, filaments 2 mm long, very sparsely glandular-puberulous, anthers 0.3 mm long, cohering. Ovary 1 x 0.75 mm, ovules many; style 1.25 mm long; stigma capitate, lying between the anthers. Capsules not seen.
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