Subterranean root parasite. Plant body (‘branch’) not fully known known, parts seen to 2 cm in diameter, warty in lines, warts to 4 mm across.. Flowers remaining partially below ground and partially emerging; pedicel to 8 mm long.. Perianth coriaceous, 8–16 cm long; tube brown outside, reddish or pale pink inside, 5.3–9 cm long, 1.9–2.8 cm in diameter; lobes 4, emergent from ground, yellowish brown (outside?) to red or yellow inside, narrowly lanceolate, 2.7–6.5 cm long, 0.9–2.9 cm wide, not setose on margins, lobe tips 3.5–5 cm long and 2–2.2 cm wide, ?flat outside, the two inside facets glabrous, ?brown.. Stamens inserted 22–50 mm above base of tube; anthers continuously joined at their bases in a series of inverted V-shapes forming a wavy ring 15–20 mm high with the top 46–73 mm above the flower base, this transversely striate and divided into numerous horizontal pollen sacs; pollen sticky, adhering to the anthers.. Ovary unilocular, subglobose, 15–30 mm (when dry) in diameter with numerous infolded patent placentas.. Fruit not seen.. Fig. 3 (p. 6).
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