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Stems 1 to several from a woody tortuous rootstock, erect, simple, whitish, subrigid, striate, setose (the setae up to 4 mm. long, spreading, ending in a minute gland, the upper 1/3–2/3 yellowish, translucent and very thin, the lower part whitish or pinkish, somewhat rigid, provided with long white hairs, not bulbous at the base) and also hairy (the hairs very slender, long, white, more or less dense towards the stem-apex).
Longistylous flowers: filaments of the longer stamens ± 12·5 mm. long, those of the shorter ones ± 10 mm. long; styles c. 11·5 mm. long, with the stigmas above the upper anthers.
Brevistylous flowers: filaments of the longer stamens 14–15 mm. long, those of the shorter ones 12-13 mm. long; anthers 2–2·5 mm. long; styles c. 5 mm. long.
Peduncles 4·5–16 cm. long, erect, slender, usually not exceeding the upper leaves 1–4(6)-flowered, setose and hairy.
Capsule up to 7 × 0·2 cm., not or slightly constricted between the seeds, glabrous, erect; beak ± 5 mm. long.
Petals 3–3·3 cm. long with limb 1·2–1·4 cm. broad, salmon-pink to orange-red or bright red.
Calyx 13–17 mm. long, sparsely and weakly setose and hairy; lobes c. 4 mm. long, oblong.
Pedicels 1·5–3 mm. long in flower, 4–7 mm. long in fruit, erect, densely setose.
Seeds c. 3 mm. long; aril subequalling 3/4 of the seed.
A perennial, somewhat viscid herb, 17–40 cm. high.
Flowers heterostylous.
Ovary glabrous.
