A perennial glabrous herb, often slightly shrubby at base; stems erect or ascending, up to 8.7 dm. but mostly 3–6 dm. tall, apparently some of the internodes sometimes viscid.. Leaves narrowly linear to oblanceolate-linear, 2–13 cm. long, 1–7 mm. broad, acute to acuminate at the apex, more or less scabrid at the margin towards the base.. Flowers in a lax divaricate sometimes reduced sometimes elongated cymose panicle of 1–8 flowers; reduced leaves or bracts often up to a short distance below every flower.. Calyx tubular, slightly clavate, 3.2–4.4 cm. long (somewhat elongating in fruit up to 4.7 cm.); teeth semi-ovate, mucronate to acuminate.. Petals white to pink or streaked or stained purple on the outside.
Well-watered grassland, rocky places, volcanic soils; at elevations of 1,800-3,300 metres.
Home