Terrestrial rosulate herbs; stems short, 2-7 cm long, pilose toward the apex, rooting from the lower nodes. Leaves flat on the ground, nearly equal in a pair, broadly elliptic to obovate, 4.7-17.2 cm long, 3.0-9.7 cm wide, fleshy, the apex acute to obtuse or rounded, the base acute, occasionally oblique, dentate, above bullate, dark green and sparsely sericeous, below pale green, sericeous along the veins; petioles stout, 0.7-2.8 cm long, green, sericeous. Inflorescences axillary, reduced, cymose; peduncles 1-7 cm long, reddish, pilose, the pedicels ca. 3 cm long, reddish, sericeous. Flowers large and showy, 1-3 per inflorescence; calyx lobes free, lanceolate to elliptic, 1.3-1.7 cm long, ca. 7 mm wide, the apex acuminate, entire, green with the main veins reddish, the outside sericeous, the inside glabrous; corolla white with reddish lines along the veins and a yellow patch inside, horizontal in the calyx, funnel shaped, spurred at the base, the tube with curved blunt spur ca. 5 mm long, long pilose outside, inside glabrous, the limb broad, the lobes rotund, ca. 1.5 cm long and wide, entire; stamens included, filaments curved, ca. 1.5 mm long, glabrous, the anthers coherent by their apices, staminode present; disc a single bibbed posterior gland; style curved, ca. 1.5 cm long, the stigma stomatomorphic. Capsule surrounded by persistent calyx; seeds not seen.
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