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Flowers axillary, 1-several, shortly pedunculate or fasciculate on the short older shoots; peduncle 0–20 mm.; pedicels more or less 10 mm. long; bracteoles minute, lanceolate more or less 3 mm. long.
Sepals unequal, chartaceous, more or less largely ovate, apiculate, 6–10 mm. long, accrescent in fruit, with hyaline edges, glabrous, outer ones shorter.
Shrubby from a thick woody rootstock, with trailing habit, glabrous or nearly so, often flowering when completely leafless.
Corolla funnel-shaped, pale mauve, deep reddish mauve inside tube, 4–7 cm. long, glabrous.
Stems erect, virgate, sometimes branching hirsute in the younger portion, glabrous later.
Seeds covered with brownish silky hairs.
Capsule globose, glabrous, chartaceous.
