Herbs, apparently ascending, to 30 cm tall; stems mealy puberulent. Leaves in subequal pairs; petiole 1-5 cm; blade drying papery, dark brown, ovate to broadly ovate, 2.5-5.5 × 1.5-3.3 cm, glabrous, base obtuse or subrounded, margins entire, apex acute; secondary veins 7 or 8 pairs; stipules caducous, not seen. Inflorescence somewhat congested-cymose, many flowered; peduncle ca. 3 cm; axes up to 1 cm, helicoid; bracteoles filiform, fleshy, 2.5-3 mm. Flowers distylous, subsessile or pedicels to 2 mm. Calyx pilosulous; hypanthium subturbinate, ca. 1.4 mm, shallowly 5-ribbed; lobes triangular to narrowly lanceolate, ca. 0.7 mm, with 1 gland in each sinus. Corolla white, tubular-funnelform, outside pilosulous, inside with white villous ring at middle and scaly pilose from middle onto lobes; tubes 11-12 mm; lobes ovate-triangular, ca. 3 mm, dorsally narrowly winged and with very short horn. Capsules not seen. Fl. Apr.
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