Rosette-lvs few, 2-5 cm. × 5-9 mm., lamina narrow-spathulate very gradually tapering into winged petiole of about same length, tip apiculate; hairs fine and silky, scarcely overlapping, appressed to spreading, on undersurface regularly retrorse, longer and stronger on margins of sheathing If-base. Lateral branches erect, up to 18 cm. long, internodes mostly > lvs. Stem-lvs few, clearly distinct from rosette-lvs, c. 8 × 3 mm., narrow-oblong, sessile, acute; hairs fine and silky on upper surface, coarser and sparser on undersurface, long and fringing on margin. Cymes simple, ebracteate, c. 12-fld, c. 5 cm. long; internodes> calyx in fr.; pedicels up to 4 mm. long. Calyx 3-4 mm. long, lobes > 1/2 length, narrow, subacute; hairs on lobes long, flexuous, towards base short and appressed with longer hooked ones. Corolla "white with a yellow eye or altogether yellow", c. 8 mm. diam., tube funnelform and c. 5 mm. long with scales well above level of calyx-tips, lobes c. 3 × 2.5 mm., ± oblong; filaments fixed about level of scales, > anthers and carrying them well above scales to level of lobes, anthers > 1 mm. long; style 2 × calyx in fr., stigma capitate. Nutlets "ovoid, pale-brown".
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Rosette loose; lvs narrow-spathulate; hairs fine, silky, scarcely overlapping, regularly retrorse abaxially. Lateral branches erect; lvs < internodes, few, with hairs fringing margins. Cymes ebracteate; internodes > calyx at fruiting. Calyx hairs long, flexuous on lobes, hooked near base of calyx. Corolla white to yellowish, c. 8 mm diam.; tube funnelform; filaments > anthers, carrying them above scales.
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