Compilation
Lyperia multifida

shrubby at least at the base, glandular-puberulous, apparently sometimes annual and in other cases perennial, divided at or near the base into several decumbent or procumbent woody or wiry branches; branchlets slender, wiry or subherbaceous, alternate, leafy or sparingly so; leaves subfasciculate, ovate or obovate, obtuse or subacute, narrowed at the base, bipinnatisect, 1/6– 2/3 in. long, 1/8– 1/2 in. broad, finely glandular-pilose; petioles up to 1/8 in. long; primary segments elliptical or oblong-cuneate, mostly petiolate; ultimate segments oblong-obovate or oval, or linear, sessile, small; flowers orange or bright red, slightly striated (W. Nelson), racemose or axillary, 1/4– 1/3 in. long; racemes lax, few- or several-flowered, short or elongated, terminal; pedicels divaricate, glandular-puberulous, 1/4– 3/4 in. long, moderately rigid, 1-flowered; bracts similar to the leaves or simply pinnatisect, smaller; calyx finely glandular-pilose, deeply 5-lobed, 1/12– 1/6 in. long; segments sublinear or spathulate, obtusely pointed; corolla-tube subcylindrical, towards the apex a little curved and shortly funnel-shaped, 1/5– 1/3 in. long, not very slender, glandular outside; limb spreading, somewhat oblique, 1/4– 2/5 in. in diam.; lobes obovate-rotund, entire, 1/10– 1/5 in. long; stamens included; style glabrous, nearly as long as or not much shorter than the corolla-tube; capsules ovoid or oblong, 1/10– 1/5 in. long, shortly or scarcely exceeding the calyx, pallid, glabrous, shining. null