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. The flowers, however, apart from being considerably smaller (diameter ca.
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vs.&gt;
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in
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), are distinct from
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with ascending corolla lobe tips (vs. radially spreading to reflexed in
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) which are densely pilose to tomentose (vs. puberulent in
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). The staminal corona lobes of
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are adpressed to the stamen and the style-head with their tips covering the style-head (vs. erect, exceeding the style-head and protruding as a bundle from the flower centre in
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C.
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perennial, erect herbs.
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composed of fleshy, fusiform roots.
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annual, green, rigid, hirsute to hispid, single or two from rootstock,
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in diameter, internodes
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, often branched at some internodes starting from second internode.
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channelled above, hirsute,
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ovate, 1730 ×
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, with 35 lateral nerves, base cordate, apex acute to obtuse, green, scabrid to hirsute above and below,
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entire, undulate, hirsute to hispid.
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narrowly triangular, 3.23.6 ×
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, densely hirsute to hispid;
<emphasis id="B96C2F7EFFBBFF834394E8138767F9D1" box="[246,327,1552,1578]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="118">pedicel</emphasis>
hirsute to hispid, green, sometimes reddish-brown speckled, slender, curved, 1416 ×
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.
<emphasis id="B96C2F7EFFBBFF834600E813838BF9D1" box="[1378,1451,1552,1578]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="118">Sepals</emphasis>
narrowly lanceolate, acute, radially spreading and protruding from underneath the flower base, hirsute with densely pilose margins, 5.56.2 ×
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, slightly reflexed, green with sparse reddish-brown speckles.
<emphasis id="B96C2F7EFFBBFF8347DEE85B8338F989" box="[1212,1304,1624,1650]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="118">Flowers</emphasis>
superficially resembling miniature versions of
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<emphasis id="B96C2F7EFFBBFF834163E87F84A8F96D" box="[513,648,1660,1686]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="118">C. gerrardii</emphasis>
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flowers, with faint sweet scent.
<emphasis id="B96C2F7EFFBBFF834091E87F8269F96D" box="[1011,1097,1660,1686]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="118">Corolla</emphasis>
rotate, non-tubular, ca. 6.0 mm in length and diameter.
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glabrous, waxy in appearance, creamish-white inside, greenish-white and dark purple speckled outside, basally fused and forming an annulus surrounding the base of the gynostegial column, then free but forming an inflated, apically slightly constricted basket-like structure around the gynostegium, margins fringed with unicellular, clavate, vibratile, ca. 1.0 mm long purple trichomes.
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free, porrect, 3.75.0 mm long, radially spreading from basket-like corolla base, replicate, folded back longitudinally forming a raised median ridge, concave below, underside light purple or greenish and purple speckled, scatteredly puberulent, upper surface convex, deeply dark purple to almost black, velvety in appearance, densely pilose to villose, margins with longer stiffer trichomes
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in length.
<emphasis id="B96C2F7EFFBBFF8342B7E99F8449F84D" box="[469,617,1948,1974]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="118">Gynostegium</emphasis>
shortly stipitate.
<emphasis id="B96C2F7EFFBBFF834053E99F8230F84D" box="[817,1040,1948,1974]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="118">Gynostegial corona</emphasis>
of staminal and interstaminal parts, 2.53.0 mm in diam., ca.
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in height, forming a nectar cup underneath each guide rail;
<emphasis id="B96C2F7EFFBBFF8347DDE9C386E3F805" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="118">interstaminal corona lobes</emphasis>
erect, 0.7 ×
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, each divided into two short lobules, greenish-purple at base, dark purple at tips, with white ca.
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long trichomes;
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adpressed to stamen and style-head, covering the latter with tips overlapping (or rarely connivent), 1.5 ×
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, tips slightly asymmetrically bilobed, whitish-purple with dark purple spots, glabrous.
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ovoid, ca. 310 × 230 µm, yellow, insertion crest ca. 150 × 50 µm;
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ca. 50 µm long;
<emphasis id="B96C2F7EFFB8FF804277EEE58786FEFB" box="[277,422,230,256]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="119">corpusculum</emphasis>
oblong, 215 × 75 µm, brown.
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paired, narrowly fusiform, ca. 70 × 5.0 mm, glabrous.
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ovate, brown with lighter brown margin, coma white.
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