Stems 10-20 mm thick. Pedicel 3-10 mm long, descending to ascending. Corolla 6-12 mm diam., ± rotate; inside with transverse purple-black to purple to red bars or spots on pale green, yellow or whitish background usually from base right to tips, sometimes tips solid purple to green or brown; lobes 2.5-6.0 mm long, 1-2 mm broad at base, spreading to slightly reflexed, lanceolate to subulate, acute, slightly thickened towards apex, margins with slender scattered cilia up to 2 mm long except in lower ±1 mm. Corona 2.3-3.7 mm diam., raised on stipe up to 0.5 mm long; outer lobes erect, deeply bifid, lobules cylindrical and often widely spreading so as to touch at tips, dark purple to reddish becoming white towards base; inner lobes whitish to reddish often with a dark purple dorsal patch towards base, slenderly lanceolate, acute, dorsiventrally flattened towards base and ± cylindrical above, slightly dorsally swollen towards base but otherwise without dorsal projection.
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