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Information Virgate perennial herb up to 2 m. tall; stems appressed-stellate-setulose. Leaf-lamina up to 6 × 3 cm., ovate to narrowly lanceolate, sparsely to fairly densely stellate-hispid on both surfaces, apex acute to rather blunt, margin serrate, base obtuse to rounded or truncate 3–5-nerved; petiole up to 3 cm. long; stipules 5 mm. long, subulate. Flowers 2–3 cm. in diam., red or pink? (perhaps hybrids), solitary, axillary; peduncle up to 8 cm. long, articulated 4–5 mm. below the apex. Epicalyx of 6–7 bracts; bracts 5–10 mm. long, linear. Calyx up to 9–10 mm. long, stellate-setulose; lobes up to 8–9 × 1·5 mm., linear-lanceolate. Petals 10–20 mm. long, narrowly obovate, sparsely stellate-setose outside, glabrous inside. Staminal tube 7–12 mm. long; free parts of filaments 0·5–1 mm. long. Style-branches 7–15 mm. long. Capsule 9 × 9 mm., subglobose, minutely pubescent. Seeds with white silky floss.

Information Perennial herb c. 0·6 m. tall; stems erect, ± patent-stellate-pubescent. Leaf-lamina 1–2·5 × 0·8–1·5 cm., ovate, ± densely pubescent above, rather sparsely setose below, hairs 2–3-pronged, apex acute, margin serrate, base obtuse or rounded; petiole up to 1·5 cm. long; stipules 3–5 mm. long, brown, subulate. Flowers c. 2·5 cm. in diam., red, solitary, axillary and forming corymbose clusters at the apices of the stems; peduncles up to 3–4 cm. long, articulated near the apex. Epicalyx of 8–9 bracts; bracts 3–5 mm. long, ciliate. Calyx 10–11 mm. long, pilose outside, glabrous inside; lobes up to 10 × 3 mm., lanceolate, acute. Petals 1·5–2 × 1–1·3 cm., obovate, stellate-pilose outside, glabrous inside. Staminal tube 9–10 mm. long; free parts of filaments 1–1·5 mm. long. Style-branches 6·5 mm. long. Capsule 9–10 mm. in diam., subglobose, minutely pubescent. Seeds (immature) with a floss.