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Stem 10-20 cm long, ± prostrate. Leaves broadly elliptic to ovate, slightly oblique or almost symmetrical, 8-25 by 5-13 cm, base cuneate or rounded or slightly truncate-cordate, apex rounded or subacute, margin usually very closely sinuate-denticulate-crenulate, sometimes revolute and then apparently subentire, glabrous above, rather fur-furaceous below (occasionally glabrescent between the nerves), coriaceous-fleshy when dry, mostly grey-olive above, pale ochraceous beneath; nerves 3-7 pairs; petiole 2½-13 cm, mostly elongate. Inflorescences arising singly or in pairs from upper axils, capitate, not or scarcely scorpioid, 7½-4 cm in diam., 6-10-flowered; peduncle up to 1 cm, sometimes almost absent. Bracts broadly elliptic, mostly herbaceous, the lowest 10-18 by 6-7(-12) mm, acute. Flowers 1-2 cm long, or sometimes up to 3 cm. Calyx-tube obovoid or ellpsoid, 8 by 2-3 mm, or sometimes narrowly fusiform, up to 2 cm by 3-4 mm, angled. Sepals elliptic, very unequal, 8-13 by 3-6 mm, subacute. Corolla gamo-petalous, 7-10 mm long, tube urceolate-campanu-late, 4-7 mm long, segments revolute, 2½-3 mm wide. Stamens 4 mm long; anthers subulate. Style thick, stigma pentagonal-cylindric 2-3 by 1 mm. Fruit ellpsoid, up to 15 by 7 mm.
