Stem 2-6 mm, simple or branched, 1-or 2-flowered. Leaves lanceolate, obtuse, to 4 mm long. Below the flowers an involucre of several, lanceolate, 3-4 mm long and 1 mm wide bracts. Perianth urceolate, yellowish brown. Tube about 9 mm; lobes triangular, terminated by long, filiform tentacles, about 13 mm. Annulus broad and thick. Insertion of the stamens broad, then narrowed into a ribbon-shaped filament and again broadened into the quadrangular anthers. Apical free margin of the anthers provided with 2 teeth, each with a globose body at the top. Ovary ovoid, about 5 mm. Style bearing 3 sessile, funnel-shaped, circumval-lated stigmas. Capsule ribbed; seeds oblong with longitudinal ribs; funicles about the same length as the seeds.
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