Inflorescence with flowers mostly opening in lower half of stem. Corolla 20-30 mm diam.; inside velvety, dark maroon to purple-black on lobes and into mouth of tube, below this banded with same dark colour on cream, with low rounded papillae each tipped with a short bristle around mouth of tube only; tube ±4-5 mm long, 4-5 mm broad at mouth, cupular; lobes 10.5-15.0 mm long, 3.5-4.0 mm broad at base, margins strongly folded back except at base (so ovate near base then slender and linear above). Corona 2.5-3.0 mm diam., yellow to pale red, raised on stipe up to 0.5 mm long; outer lobes erect, with darker reddish tips; inner lobes with broad swollen dorsal projection often flecked with purple-red.
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