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Annual or perennial plant, thermophyte, 20-80 cm, branched especially from the base, glabrous or pubescent, with rigid prickles, spaced apart. Stems rigid. Leaves opposite or partially alternate, very coarse, varied in size and shape, mostly lanceolate or oblong, usually tapered at both ends, petiolate; upper leaves sessile. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, narrowly paniculate; with lanceolate bracts; pedicels elongated and decumbent during fruiting, densely hispid with scattered whitish hairs. Flower with calyx 6 mm, densely hairy; during fruiting, calyx 10 mm or more, very expanded at the base, with acute triangular lobes, ovate, and veined at the base. Corolla 10-12 mm in diameter, blue-purplish, turning to yellowish-red near the corolla tube; tube yellow; lobes oval, long-attenuated. Anthers densely hairy, with glabrous edges. 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