Plants candelabra-form, (10–)20–45 cm. Basal leaves persisting or not. Cauline leaves: petiole present or absent (proximal leaves), absent (distal leaves); blade lanceolate to linear (proximal leaves), ovate to linear (distal leaves), to 10(–14) cm, margins dentate or entire (proximal leaves), entire (distal leaves). Bracts green, ovate to elliptic, 4.3–8.3 × 1.9–3.2 mm, width 1/3–2/3 length, not concealing capsule, margins entire. Flowers: sepals 4–10 mm; petals orange proximally, yellow distally, 10–20 mm, apex rounded to retuse; stamens 20+, 4–13 mm, filaments monomorphic, filiform, unlobed; styles 6–14 mm. Capsules narrow-cylindric, 8–35 × 2.5–4 mm, axillary curved to 45° at maturity, often prominently longitudinally ribbed. Seeds 10–20, in 1 row distal to mid fruit, tan, dark-mottled or not, triangular prisms, surface ±smooth to minutely tessellate under 10× magnification; recurved flap over hilum absent; seed coat cell outer periclinal wall flat to slightly convex. 2n = 72.
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