Descriptions : Herb Small herb; stems, peduncles, and pedicels covered with short, easily scraped off, wool-like hairs; leaves opposite, simple, linear, mucronate; stipules translucent, tapering, with extended midvein; inflorescence a many-flowered cyme, terminal (or axillary?); bracts translucent, bifid; sepals 5, pointed, translucent, overlapping, bract-like in appearance; corolla connate-basally(?), with 5 overlapping obovate, red or brown lobes; stamens 5, alternating with corolla lobes, adnate to connate part of corolla; ovary slightly 3- or 4-angled; style 1 with 3-lobed stigma; locule 1, with approximately 4 ovules, basal placentation.
