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Stems single or clustered, 8–35 cm. (? more), unbranched, covered with a close, tawny pubescence and scattered glandular hairs, rather slender varying to thick, rather fleshy.. Scales ovate, up to 1 cm. long, reddish brown.. Inflorescence terminally rounded, from somewhat lax to very dense.. Calyx sessile, split dorsally and ventrally, straw-coloured with darker veins.. Corolla whitish yellow, up to 18 mm. long, the lobes of the limb with purplish tips, markedly swollen after fertilization and very constricted above the ovary, gently curved outward or becoming straight; upper lip bilobed, porrect, shallowly crenate-dentate; lower lip with subequal, rounded to rounded-acuminate lobes.. Stamens inserted 5–7 mm. from the base of the tube; filaments and anthers usually glabrous.. Style glabrous; stigma bilobed, whitish, warted.. Capsules ovoid-ellipsoid, the valves remaining apically united when ripe.
A plant that grows attached to other plants. It can grow for 2 or more years. It is 15-30 cm high. It is hairy. It usually has branched fleshy roots. The leaves are D to oval shaped and 1-2 cm long by 5-7 mm wide. The flowers are in spikes 5-20 cm long. They are tube shaped and pale yellow or dark purple. The fruit are capsules that are oblong and 1 cm long by 5-7 mm wide. The seeds are narrowly oval and 0.5 mm long by 0.2 mm wide.
