Stems 10-20 mm thick. Pedicel 2-5 mm long, descending and holding flower facing downwards. Corolla 6-12 mm diam., ± rotate to shallowly campanulate; inside with dark purple-brown to purple-black or purple-red spots on cream to yellow background, often with dark colour coalescing towards apex of lobes into solid patch, sometimes forming narrow ring around corona; lobes 2.6-4.0 mm long, 1.7-2.0 mm broad at base, ascending to spreading, deltate, not thickened towards apex, with cilia up to 1 mm long along margins. Corona 2.1-2.3 mm diam., purple-red to purple-black, raised on short stipe; outer lobes erect, bifid to above middle into slightly diverging lobules; inner lobes ± equalling anthers, deltoid to ± square, obtuse to truncate, dorsiventrally flattened, with short ascending to erect truncate emarginate ridge-like dorsal projection near base.
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