Erect shrub up to 90 cm (3 ft). Branches virgate or spreading, puberulous, glabrescent. Leaves 6-nate, 8-2 long and from 0.7-1.0 mm wide, mostly erect and imbricate, sometimes spreading, rarely squarrose, linear-trigonous, acute, mostly glabrous, occasionally pubescent, rigid. Flowers axillary; peduncles 2-6 mm long, pubescent; bracts approximate or subapproximate, foliaceous, 1/2-3/4 as long as the sepals. Sepals 6-1 long, linear to linear-subulate, foliaceous, dry or viscid, glabrous or pubescent. Corolla 1.2-2.2 cm long, tubular or clavate-tubular, asymmetrically inflated, more rarely subequal, sometimes curved, contracted or widened at the mouth, pubescent or villous, usually more or less viscid, variously coloured, white, red, yellow, green, pink, orange and yellow, reddish-brown or pink and white; lobes erect, short, obtuse. Anthers included, 1-2 mm long, lateral, oblong, blunt, rarely semiovate and acute, muticous; pore about 1/3 the length of the cell. Ovary ovoid or turbinate, villous, mostly glabrous towards the base, style exserted; stigma capitate.
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Erect, 1-3 ft. high; branches virgate or spreading; leaves 6-nate, mostly erect and imbricate, sometimes spreading, rarely squarrose, linear, acute, mostly glabrous, rigid, 4-10 lin. long, from 1/3 to over 1/2 lin. wide; pedicels 1-3 lin. long; bracts linear, approximate or subapproximate, from 1/2 to 3/4 the length of the sepals; sepals linear or linear-subulate, foliaceous, dry or viscid, glabrous or pubescent, 3-5 lin. long; corolla tubular or clavate-tubular, asymmetrically inflated, more rarely subequal, contracted or widened at the mouth, pubescent or villous, usually more or less viscid, variously coloured, 6-11 lin. long; anthers included, lateral, oblong, blunt, rarely semi-ovate and acute, muticous, 1/2-1 lin. long; ovary ovoid or turbinate, villous with long hairs, mostly glabrous towards the base.
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