Stem simple or, sometimes, branched, 1-or 2-flowered, up to 8½ cm high. Leaves few, lanceolate, obtuse, to 4 mm long. At the base of the flowers an involucre, consisting of lanceolate bracts. Perianth obconic-campanulate, dirty-yellow in the basal part, bright orange-yellow in the upper part and in the limb. Perianth tube about 11 mm; the basal 5 mm inside with transverse bars. Lobes triangular, 3 mm long, ending in bright orange tentacles, red at the base, 6 mm long. Annulus prominent. Anthers with 3 short thick-filiform appendages at the free apical margin; in the lower part of the anther, inserted at the middle of the connective, a broad, dorsal quadrangular wing, wider than the anther. Thecae oblong, in the basal part of the anther; in the apical part 2 nectaries on the line of junction of one connective with the next. Ovary obovoid, 3 mm. Stigmas narrow-lan-ceolate, rather long, acute. Capsule ribbed, about 5 mm. Fruit stalk lengthening about 5-7 mm above the involucre. Seeds ellipsoid, ribbed.
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