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Perennial herb, 1.5 m high. Leaves often 3-lobed. Petals 10-25 mm long. Free parts of filaments of the stamens 2-4 mm long. Flowers red.
Perennial herb up to 1·5 m. tall, producing annual shoots from a woody root-stock; stems somewhat scabrous, densely stellate-setose.
Flowers 3–3·5 cm. in diam., red, solitary, axillary and forming terminal racemes by reduction of the upper leaves.
Calyx 12 mm. long, densely pilose; lobes 8–10 × 2·5–3·5 mm., lanceolate, acute.
Petals 2 × 1·5–1·8 cm., stellate-pilose outside, glabrous inside.
Staminal tube 5–6 mm. long; free parts of filaments 2–4 mm. long.
Epicalyx of 5–7 bracts; bracts 4–5 mm. long, linear.
Capsule 8–10 × 8–10 mm., subglobose, pubescent.
Seeds with a white silky floss.
Style-branches 4–4·5 mm. long.
