A parasitic herb. Stem fleshy. Leaves adpressed, 1.4 cm long, 6 mm broad above, spathulate, obtuse, glandular-villous without. Inflorescence up to 13 cm long, 3 cm in diameter; axis fleshy. Bracts 2.5 cm long, 0.6 cm broad above, spathulate, densely glandular-pilose without, 3-nerved above; bracteoles 2, 2.5 cm long, 2 mm broad, linear, subacute, narrowing at the base. Pedicels 3 mm long, 3 mm in diameter, fleshy. Calyx unequal; the anterior segment 3 mm long, linear; the lateral and posterior segments 2.5 cm long, pilose without. Corolla slightly curved, 3.5 cm long, 7 mm in diameter, viscously pilose without in the upper half; mouth a longitudinal slit, about 1 cm long, more or less opening out upwards by a recurving of the margins which indicates the presence of a hooded faintly two-lobed upper lip and a very obscure lower lip split to the base. Filaments 2.4 cm long, attached near base of corolla-tube. Ovary 4 mm long, 4 mm in diameter, globose, glabrous; style 2.7 cm long, terete, gradually thickening and sharply curved above, glabrous; stigma clavate.
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