Herb to 50 cm high. Leaves lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, erect to spreading, usually 10-55 cm long, 1.5-6 cm wide, green or grey-green, rather sparsely silky-scaly on margins, midvein and usually lamina. Panicle erect, exserted, broad, densely flowered, usually 15-33 cm long; branches 5-9; peduncle 9-25 cm long, whitish-woolly, with 1 or 2 leaves; pedicels slender, 2-13 mm long. Perianth white, sometimes red at throat; tube 2-4 mm long, densely silky-scaly, usually enclosing and basally adnate to ovary; lobes erect to spreading, 6-12 mm long, pubescent along the middle outside. Filaments broadly subulate, 0.2-1 mm long; anthers 1.2-1.5 mm long. Ovary robust, 3-lobed; style deeply trifid, very short, or styles 3. Capsule oblong, 4-5 mm long, exserted.
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