trunk to 50 cm d. b. h. branchlets densely puberulent with a few much longer hairs, usually tipped with slender inconspicuous spines.

bracts mound-shaped, arranged in disconnected rings, sparsely puberulent, covered with waxy scalelike trichomes.

苞片小丘形成，在拆开的戒指，疏生微柔毛排列，为腊制鳞片状所覆盖。

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fruit a drupaceous capsule, ellipsoid-ovoid, puberulent, 1-seeded, perianth persistent, style persistent and developing into a beak.

果具核果蒴果，椭圆形卵球形，被微柔毛，1种子，宿存的花被，花柱宿存的和发展成为一喙。

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petiole ca. 5 mm, puberulent, narrowly winged by decurrent leaf base;

叶柄长约的5毫米，被微柔毛，叶基下延呈狭翅状；

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bract ovate; perianth shallowly cupular, puberulent, outer lobes broadly lanceolate, ca. 1. 8 mm, inner ones slightly shorter than outer;

苞片卵形花被浅杯状，被微柔毛，外部裂片宽披针形的，大约1.8毫米，内部的稍短于外部的；

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female flowers few- to 10-fascicled at apices of short shoots, puberulent;

雌花少数到10朵簇生在短茎顶端，被微柔毛的；

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stamens 10, included in the tube, reaching only to base of lobes, filaments sparsely puberulent in lower half;

雄蕊10，在筒部内藏，只达到裂片，花丝疏生微柔毛的在下半部的至基部；

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sepals free beyond attachment to ovary, abaxially glabrous to white villous, adaxially dark red puberulent;

萼片离生超过贴生的子房，背面无毛到白色具长柔毛，暗红色被微柔毛；

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ligule obliquely arcuate or oblique, to ca. 2 mm, glabrous or puberulent, entire or ciliate;

间接的叶舌弧曲的或偏斜，对约2毫米，无毛或具微柔毛，整个或者纤毛；

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bracts obliquely elliptic, ca. 1 mm, concave inside, puberulent at base outside;

苞片斜椭圆形，长约1毫米，里面凹，外边基部被微柔毛；

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corolla tube exserted, saccate-swollen in front at middle, puberulent annulate, 2-lipped;

在前面的外露，囊状花冠筒膨胀在中部，被微柔毛有环，二唇形；

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tube cylindric, ca. 10 mm, outer surface glabrous, inner surface puberulent;

圆筒状的筒部，大约毫米，无毛，内部的外表面被微柔毛地装以面着；

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sepals blue-purple, abaxially appressed puberulent;

萼片蓝紫色，背面贴伏被微柔毛；

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corolla rose, purple, dark purple, to dark red, 2-lipped, puberulent, hairy annulate near base inside;

花冠玫瑰色，紫色，在里面的深紫色，到暗红色，二唇形，被微柔毛，有毛的有环近基部；

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compound raceme pyramidal, to 40 cm, many flowered, yellow glandular puberulent;

金字塔的复合总状花序，在40厘米，多花的，黄具腺被微柔毛；

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sepals blue-purple, abaxially puberulent and sparsely glandular;

萼片蓝紫色，狭披针形，背面被微柔毛和疏生腺体；

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sepals blue-purple, sometimes yellow, abaxially puberulent;

萼片蓝紫色，有时黄，背面被微柔毛；

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leaves sessile; leaf sheath ca. 6 mm, sparsely puberulent on side opposite leaf blade, glabrous elsewhere;

叶无柄叶鞘约6毫米，与叶片相对一边疏生微柔毛，在别处无毛；

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long branchlets yellowish brown or brown, turning yellowish gray or dark gray, initially puberulent;

长小枝黄棕色或棕色，转动淡黄灰色的或深灰色，最初被微柔毛；

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branchlets straight, stout, puberulent, with distinctly raised leaf scars;

直的小枝，坚固，被微柔毛，带有明显突起的叶痕；

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leaf blade abaxially densely gray-white stellate puberulent, hairs twisted, some slender, others robust, adaxially scabrous and stellate;

叶片背面密被灰白色星状被微柔毛的，毛扭曲，一些纤细的，其它人粗壮，正面粗糙和星状的；

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