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Semiparasitic herb, up to 300 mm tall, grey-green when dry, scabrid, hispid. Leaves foliaceous, linear or lanceolate-linear, floral leaves exceeding calyx. Flowers spicate, dense; purple-pink, mauve or white.
Corolla pink, violet or whitish, tube up to 11 mm. long, angled just below lobes, ± pubescent; lower lobes c. 4 mm. long, all narrow.
Leaves usually erect and close to stem, 5–20 mm. long, linear to linear-lanceolate, hairs thick-based, scabrid.
Calyx tube 2–3 mm. long, teeth 1–2 mm. long, subulate at apex, 5-nerved, pubescent, hyaline between nerves.
Slender, hairy, hemiparasitic perennial to 50 cm. Leaves linear. Flowers pink to mauve, calyx 5-ribbed.
Inflorescences dense terminal spikes, elongating in fruit, several flowers out at the same time.
Semi-parasitic herb, stem erect (10)20–55 cm. high, usually simple, pubescent, hairs whitish.
Bracts imbricated, lanceolate, ciliate-pubescent on margins and midrib; bracteoles linear.
Capsules 2–3 x 1.5 mm.
