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Leaves several, loosely associated in a tuft, young ones sessile, flowering ones becoming conspicuously stalked, stalk (petiolode) up to c. 35 mm. long, pilose, lamina linear-oblong to almost ovate, variable both in size and shape, apparently not exceeding c. 10 × 4 cm., base subcordate to cuneate, margin finely crenate-dentate.
Stamens arising in upper third of corolla tube; filaments c. 2 mm. long; anther lobes <1 mm. long; staminodes minute.
Capsule c. 8–15 × 1.5 mm. long, densely clothed in long spreading hairs, crowned with the persistent style.
Ovary 3 mm. long; style 6 mm. long, dorsoventrally compressed; stigma stomatomorphic, papillose.
Calyx divided to the base into 5 linear-lanceolate segments c. 2 mm. long, pilose.
Perennial, all parts excluding flower pilose with long spreading hairs.
Inflorescences 1 or 2 at junction of blade and stalk, few-flowered.
Pedicels up to c. 12 mm. long, both wiry.
Seeds 0.3–0.4 mm. long, reticulate.
Peduncles up to c. 60 mm. long.
Bracts minute.
