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The original description is based on a very poor specimen consisting of a single stem with flower, without the basal organ and without fruits which are described here for the first time.
Flowers dark purple to wine-red, sometimes with a yellow throat; corolla tube funnel-shaped (except at the very base), 40–50 mm. long, limb c. 35 mm. in diam.; lobes subequal.
Perennial herb, c. 20 cm. high; the basal organ consisting of a short woody stem arising from a subterranean pyriform or sometimes napiform tuber.
Fruit rotund in lateral view, c. 22 mm. long and 20 mm. broad; the wings c. 3–4 mm. broad; beak very narrow.
Seeds 1–2 in each loculus.
