Perennial herb, crown eventually thick and woody with clumped vegetative buds, stems several from the crown, erect or ascending, up to 350 mm long, usually branched or at least with axillary vegetative buds, pilose with long retrorse white hairs, leafy. Leaves spreading, mostly 35-60 x 7-17 mm, biggest about the middle of the stem, elliptic, tapering at both ends, margins obscurely to distinctly callose-toothed particularly in the upper half, both surfaces pilose. Bracts adnate to calyx for 2-2.5 mm, leaflike, but smaller and diminishing in size upwards. Flowers opening at dusk or in dull light. Spike elongating in fruit. Calyx 10-15 mm long, lips 4-6 mm long, pilose. Corolla tube c. 34-50 mm long, glandular-puberulous, hairs 0.2-0.3 mm long, rarely acute hairs as well to 0.4 mm, limb held horizontally, regular; mouth with circlet of long unicellular hairs; lobes 6-8 mm long, deeply notched, red and glandular-puberulous outside, white and glandular-puberulous inside particularly on lower half. Stamens 4, anticous anthers 1.5-1.8 mm long, shortly exserted, posticous anthers 4-5 mm long, included. Capsule 11-13 x 4-5 mm. Seeds not seen.
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Perennial herb, up to 350 mm tall. Stems either branched or with small axillary leaf tufts. Leaves mostly 7-17 mm broad, both surfaces pilose. Corolla tube 34-50 mm long, lobes deeply notched, 6-8 mm long. Flowers red outside, white inside.
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