Perennial, simple or branched at base, the stems erect, 5-9 dm tall, strigose and sometimes also short-hirsute, usually freely branched above; lower cauline leaves spathulate to oblong-oblanceolate, mostly sinuate-dentate, or-denticulate, acute to obtuse, 3-9 cm long, 7-15 mm wide, subsessile or with short winged petiole, strigose; upper ones reduced, subentire; floral bracts ovate to lanceolate, 5-10 mm long, thin, caducous, more or less villous; spikes simple, or usually branched and in open panicles 2-6 dm long, on peduncles 5 or more cm. long; axes glabrous or usually more or less pilose and also glandular-pubescent, nodding at tips; hypanthium usually reddish, slender, 5-8 mm long, externally with scattered gland-tipped hairs and usually some longer non-glandular ones, internally with white interwoven hairs; sepals more or less reddish, pilose and glandular-pubescent, 12-15 mm long, lance-linear, separately reflexed in an thesis; petals white, changing to rose, spatulate-rhomboid, short-clawed, 12-20 mm long; stamens subequal, the filaments slightly flattened upward, 10-15 mm long; anthers red, ca. 4 mm long; style slightly exceeding stamens, pubescent at base; stigma-lobes ca. 0.5 mm long; fruit elliptic-oblong, about equally narrowed at both ends, 7-9 mm long, sharply 4-angled, each face 2 mm wide, 1-ribbed and somewhat furrowed apically, subglabrous to scattered-pilose.
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Robust, clumped, perennial herb, up to 1 m high; branching from underground crown. Leaves narrowly elliptic, coarsely and remotely serrate. Inflorescence a raceme or panicle. Flowers villous in bud, opening near sunrise. Floral tube villous, up to 9 mm long. Sepals villous. Petals 4, white, fading to light or deep pink. Flowering time Dec.-Feb. Fruit a sessile, broad-based, indehiscent capsule, nut-like, up to 9 x 3.5 mm. Seeds 1-4, ovoid, up to 2.3 x 1.5 mm, yellowish to light brown.
Perennial herb to c. 1.5 m high. Stems numerous from an underground crown, with rather coarse curved hairs. Leaves usually narrowly elliptic, 0.5–9 cm long, 0.1–1.3 cm wide, broadly acute to acuminate, sinuately and minutely and often sparsely denticulate. Inflorescence to c. 80 cm long, simple or much-branched. Petals 10–15 mm long. Flowers zygomorphic, opening near sunrise. Fruit ellipsoidal, usually c. 6–8 mm long and c. 3 mm wide, strongly 4-angled.
Perennial herb, 0.5-0.9 m high. Capsule sessile or nearly so, sharply angled. Sepals 12-15 mm long. Petals 12-20 mm long. Filaments 10-15 mm long. Flowers white changing to rose.
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