Stems 12-20 mm thick. Pedicel 3-5 mm long, descending and holding flower facing downwards. Corolla 7-11 mm diam., rotate usually with 4 lobes reflexed and other pressed against stem; inside barred with purple on pale yellow near centre to plain purple towards tips of lobes; lobes 2.5-4.5 mm long, 1.5-2.0 mm broad at base, spreading to reflexed, ovate-deltate to lanceolate, acute, not thickened towards apex, margins with slender cilia up to 2 mm long. Corona 2.5-3.0 mm diam., purple-black to brown, raised on short stipe to sessile; outer lobes ascending, bifid into widely diverging lobules; inner lobes rarely exceeding anthers, ± deltoid, dorsiventrally flattened, dorsally somewhat swollen towards base but otherwise without dorsal projection.
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