Plants candelabra-form, 30–70 cm. Basal leaves persisting; petiole present or absent; blade lanceolate to linear, margins usually deeply lobed, lobes rounded. Cauline leaves: petiole absent; blade ovate to lanceolate, to 17 cm, margins deeply to shallowly lobed. Bracts green, ovate to lanceolate, 6.1–14.2 × 3.6–5.1 mm, width 1/3–2/3 length, not concealing capsule, margins 3–7-lobed. Flowers: sepals 9–19 mm; petals orange proximally, yellow distally, obovate, 20–40 × (12–)16–33 mm, apex mucronate; stamens 20+, 12–30 mm, filaments heteromorphic, 5 outermost linear, inner filiform, unlobed; styles 15–24 mm. Capsules clavate, 25–40 × 4–5 mm, axillary curved to 90° at maturity, usually inconspicuously longitudinally ribbed. Seeds 30–40, in 2+ rows distal to mid fruit, tan, dark-mottled or not, irregularly polygonal, surface minutely tessellate under 10× magnification; recurved flap over hilum absent; seed coat cell outer periclinal wall domed, domes on seed edges less than 1/2 as tall as wide at maturity. 2n = 36.
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