Low-growing perennial up to 15 cm. high; stem erect to decumbent, glabrous.. Leaves glabrous, petiolate; blade obovate or suborbicular, up to 7 cm. long, 5 cm. wide, apex obtuse, base cuneate to sometimes rounded, margins entire, sinuate or remotely crenate, green to reddish; petiole up to 1.5(–2) cm. long, 0.1–0.15(–0.2) cm. wide, flat, semiamplexicaul.. Inflorescence ± dense, corymbose, 2–3(–7) cm. long, with a few glandular hairs or glabrous; pedicels 1–3 mm. long.. Calyx-lobes lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 3.5–4.5 mm. long, 1–1.8 mm. wide, connate at the base for ± 0.3 mm.. Corolla bright red, light green on the lower part of the tube; tube 7–9.5 mm. long; lobes narrowly to broadly oblong-ovate, ± 5 mm. long, 2–3 mm. wide, mucronate (mucro ± 0.3 mm. long).. Episepalous stamens included 0.5–1 mm. below the epipetalous stamens; epipetalous stamens with tips attaining the throat of the tube or included by up to 1.5 mm.; anthers with apical glands ± 0.1 mm. in diameter; anthers of both whorls nearly the same size, broadly oblong, 0.65–7 mm. long, 0.6–0.65 mm. wide.. Nectary scales linear, 2–2.5 mm. long.. Carpels linear-lanceolate, 6.5–7 mm. long, abruptly terminating in styles 2–2.5 mm. long.
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