scarious

The short utricle beak is mostly destroyed, except in one specimen, and this suggests that it was poorly lignified or even scarious. The achene's style is always broken at ca.

The utricles are globose or elongate, conical or cylindrical, and brown or scarious. The seeds are spherical, biconvex, and light brown (Figures 1(c) and 1(d)).

Inflorescence a terminal cluster of racemes, showy, up to 13 cm long and to 16 cm wide, usually openly-branched, rarely with only 2-3 racemes, branches 2-9 cm long, 2-4 cm wide; axes densely hairy, with both glandular hairs and short eglandular hairs intermixed; pedicels accrescent and elongated in fruit, up to 15 mm long, with both glandular and eglandular hairs; bracts ovate to lanceolate, widened at the base, yellowish to purplish or dark reddish, densely short pubescent with glandular hairs and crispy eglandular hairs, 3-11 mm long, 2.3-4.6 mm wide including the margin that can be dark and scarious or concolorous and not scarious; two inner bracteoles 2-3 mm long, pubescent at least on the middle portion and margins.

opposite amplexicaule scale--like leaves, fused to form a collar--like segment, with a membranaceous / scarious hyaline margin 0.3 mm wide with a subacute to rounded apex, not or slightly keeled.