Stem simple or branched, up to 12 cm, 1-to 5-flowered. Leaves ovate or lanceolate-ovate, obtuse, 3 mm. At the base of a flower an involucre of 3 bracts. Perianth tube 7 mm, urceolate, whitish with 12 longitudinal, orange stripes., inside with longitudinal bars connected by many transverse bars. Outer perianth lobes obtuse, ovate; inner ones triangular, terminated in up to 3 cm long, filiform tentacles. Anthers 3-toothed at the free apical margin; each tooth terminating in a hair. On the outer side of the anther, inserted in the middle, a quadrangular appendage, wider than the stamen. Margin of the appendage strigose. Style orange-coloured; stigmas sessile, ovate, truncate. Ovary obovoid, 3 mm. Capsule orange-coloured, about 6 mm. Seeds ellipsoid.
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