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Tepals all rather narrowly lanceolate, narrowly hyaline-margined, obscurely 3–5-nerved in the central green portion, more or less densely pilose with fine, patent or subpatent greenish-white hairs; outer 2 tepals 7–10 mm. long, the inner 3 gradually less pilose and slightly more broadly margined.
Leaves opposite or the upper occasionally ternate, elliptic or narrowly elliptic, 2–7.2 × 0.4–2.5 cm., gradually or more abruptly narrowed at base and apex, more or less acute, moderately to densely furnished on both surfaces with appressed hairs, rarely sublanate.
Bracts deltoid-ovate, 5–6 mm. long, subglabrous, ciliate or sparsely (the midrib sometimes more densely) pilose, membranous except for the greenish midrib, which is excurrent in a long more or less pilose arista.
Stamens 3–4 mm. long, the filaments densely pilose below; pseudo-staminodes 1–2 mm. long, flabellate with reflexed, densely hairy margins, dorsal scale absent or very small and concealed in the marginal hairs.
Inflorescence cylindrical, 2–12 × 1.5–2 cm., dense, the axis densely white-pilose, sessile or with a peduncle up to 4 cm. long.
Ripe capsule oblong-ovoid, c. 3 mm. long; seeds oblong-ovoid, c. 2.75 mm. long, brown, shining, faintly reticulate.
Bracteoles very similar, not falling with the perianth, the arista about half the length of the lamina.
Ovary obpyriform, c. 1 mm. long, with a faint apical keel; style slender, 3–4 mm. long.
