Stem 4-25 mm, simple, 1-flowered, beset with few, lanceolate, acute, about 3 mm long leaves. At the base of the flower an involucre of 3 lanceolate, acute, 4-6 mm long bracts. Perianth tube urceolate, with 6 longitudinal stripes, 6 mm. Outer perianth lobes simple, recurved, filiform with triangular base, 4½ mm. Inner ones erect, about 15 mm, consisting of an erect, short, basal part; a transverse part with hamate base and a broadened, rounded apex and, inserted on the apex of the transverse part, an erect, long, awl-shaped part. Annulus prominent. Anther quadrangular, 3-toothed at the free apical margin. Stigmas lanceolate, acute. Ovary obovoid, truncate, 1½ mm.
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