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Flowers 2–7(9) per raceme, heterostylous; peduncles 2–14·5 cm. long, with white patent hairs and patent yellowish setae, the latter 0·5–1·5 mm. long and somewhat dilated towards the base; bracts 1–4 mm. long, subacuminate; pedicels 6–16(18) mm. long, patently hairy and setose.
Capsule 1·5–3 × 0·3–0·5 cm., fusiform-trigonous, tapering to both extremities, sometimes slightly falcate, with smooth faces and raised ribbed angles, glabrous or puberulous, at a right angle or oblique to the peduncle; beak 2–4 mm. long.
Styles of the longistylous flowers 14–16 mm. long, exceeding by c. 4 mm. the anthers of the longest stamens; styles of the brevistylous ones 8·5–10 mm. long, not reaching the anthers of the shorter stamens.
Petals 25–40 × 10–18 mm., broadly obovate-cuneate, usually bright orange (somewhat paler on the abaxial surface), sometimes yellow.
Stamens unequal, the 3 longer ones 14–16 mm., the other two 12–14 mm. long; anthers c. 1·75 mm. long.
Calyx 12–18 mm. long, greenish, pubescent and shortly setose; lobes 5–8 mm. long, linear.
A perennial herb with a long, thick, straight or contorted woody rootstock.
Ovary 4–5 × 1–1·5 mm., ellipsoid, acute, puberulous or subglabrous.
Stems 1 to few, usually short to almost absent.
Fruiting pedicels recurved, accrescent.
Seeds 3·5–4 × 1·75 mm., obovoid.
