Perennial with thick fusiform taproot. Stems several, suffruticose, prostrate to suberect, up to ±1 m long; silvery subtomentose as are all young parts, petioles, peduncles, pedicels and calyx. Leaves lanceolate-oblong to elliptic-oblong, apex obtuse to acute, recurved mucronate, base rounded to truncate or subcor-date, 20-70 mm long, fairly densely hairy beneath, less densely to glabrescent and somewhat verrucose above; petiole 4-15 mm long. Peduncles 10-50 mm long, mostly 1-flowered; pedicel 2-10 mm long; bracetoles lanceolate to oblanceolate, 8-15 mm long, outer surface densely hairy. Sepals subequal, lanceolate or oblong, apex acute or acuminate, 14-17 mm long, inner ones sometimes shorter. Corolla funnel-shaped, pink-purple with darker centre, 40-50 mm long, 40-50 mm wide; midpetaline areas shortly hairy. Capsule subglobose, apiculate, style base persistent, glabrous, dark brown, + 10 mm long. Seed 1, minutely puberulous.
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Prostrate or suberect perennial herb. Vegetative parts (except upper surface of older leaves), peduncles and calyces densely and shortly silvery-tomentose, sometimes whitish silky. Leaves petiolate, elliptic-oblong, ovate or lanceolate-oblong, acute with recurved mucronate apex to obtuse or slightly retuse, base rounded to truncate or subcordate. Sepals lanceolate or oblong, acuminate, acute. Corolla 40-50 mm long. Flowers rosy purple.
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