Herbs annual, yellow-green, 50-70(-150) cm tall, densely yellow hispid, reflexed white pubescent. Stems single, not branched. Basal leaves oblanceolate, 5-10 × 0.5-1.2 cm, abaxially densely strigose and sparsely hispid, adaxially densely hispid, hairs discoid at base, base attenuate into petiole, apex obtuse; stem leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 4-7 × 1-2 cm, base rounded, apex acute. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, forming a large panicle; bracts linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 0.5-2 cm × 2-7 mm, densely yellow hirsute and sparsely white strigose. Pedicel pendulous or recurved, slender, 1-1.5 cm, densely hispid. Flowers widely spaced. Calyx 6-8 mm, to 1.2-1.4 cm in fruit, parted nearly to base; lobes linear-lanceolate. Corolla red, tubular-campanulate, 7-9 mm, ca. 1.5 mm wide at base, gradually expanded upward, densely short strigose above middle outside, glabrous inside except for nectaries; throat 4-5.5 mm wide; nectary ringlike, ca. 0.5 mm, villous; lobes broadly triangular, ca. 1 × 2-2.5 mm, margin revolute. Filaments subulate, 2.5-3.5 mm, inserted ca. 2.5 mm above base in corolla tube; anthers united at base, ca. 4 mm, included. Nutlets black, ca. 2.5 mm, shiny. Fl. Jul.
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