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Bristly hairy to glabrescent perennial with thick rootstock. Stems herbaceous, robust, prostrate, up to 2 m long. Leaves ovate to oblong, 40-100 mm long, margins entire with dense hairs; petioles shorter than leaf blade. Inflorescence a dense, few-flowered head; peduncle 30-150 mm long; bracteoles linear, 12-25 mm; pedicels mostly absent. Sepals subequal, 18-25 mm long, similar to bracteoles, accrescent in fruit. Corolla funnel-shaped, 40-70 mm long, magenta, hairy on midpetaline areas. Flowering time Sept.-Apr, mostly Nov.-Feb. Fruit a subglobose, glabrous capsule, 12-15 mm in diam. Seeds 10 mm long, dark brown, glabrous.
Perennial herb. Stems procumbent. Leaves with blade ovate to oblong, 40-100 x 20-65 mm, base rounded, truncate or shallowly cordate, margin entire, with a dense yellowish fringe of hairs. Flowers: in dense few-flowered heads on long peduncles, peduncles bristly; calyx lobes linear to linear-subulate, very bristly with yellowish hairs, gradually tapering into acute point; corolla 40-70 mm long, magenta; Jan., Feb. Fruit a subglobose, glabrous capsule, 12-15 mm in diameter; seeds glabrous.
Prostrate perennial herb. Leaves ovate to oblong, entire; rounded, truncate or shallowly cordate at base, margin with dense yellowish fringe of hairs. Flowers in dense few-flowered head on long peduncle, peduncle bristly. Sepals linear to linear-subulate, very bristly, gradually tapering into acute point. Corolla 40-70 mm long. Flowers magenta.
A creeping herb.
