Erect, branched or subvirgate, of various aspects, from 1-3 ft. high; branches puberulous or tomentulose; leaves 4-nate, mostly recurved-spreading, linear, acute, sulcate, mostly ciliate, glabrous, glossy, 2-4 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, or subumbellate, or occasionally pseudo-lateral and clustered at the ends of the branches; pedicels puberulous, 1-1 1/2 lin. long; bracts remote or rarely subapproximate, about 1 lin. long; sepals lanceolate to ovate, acute, glumaceous, rigid, glabrous, 1-1 1/2 lin. long, reaching generally 3/4 the height of the corolla; corolla obconic or obconic-cyathiform, mostly somewhat widened to the mouth, more rarely cyathiform, apparently dirty-white, about 1 1/2 lin. long; limb spreading or suberect, subequal to the tube in length; anthers included, subovate or oblong, membranous, smooth, scabrid on the margins only, 1/3-3/5 lin. long, very shortly aristate; awns more or less hairy; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; style exserted (probably always so at full maturity, but often included, in our specimens); stigma clavate, capitellate or simple, sometimes distinctly 4-toothed or lobulate; ovules compressed; seeds unknown.
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Sprawling, much-branched shrub or small tree, 0.5-1.2(-2.5) m high. Leaves 3(4)-nate, crowded at ends of branches, imbricate; 4.0-8.5 mm long, linear, shiny, bright green. Flowers 4-nate, clustered at ends of branches. Calyx sepals 2-3 x 1.5 mm, glabrous or hairy, obscure midrib in dorsal upper half, ventrally concave. Corolla tubular, 3-5 mm long, urceolate or cyathiform; tube up to 2.5 mm long; lobes up to 1.5 mm long, obtuse, showy, dirty white, pink or cerise. Filaments 2 mm long; appendages short, ciliate; anthers included, < 1.5 mm long. Ovary glabrous; style exserted, up to 2.5 mm long; stigma clavate, capitellate or simple. Flowering time July-Apr.
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