Long Grass Nature Refuge
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Prostrate to ascending herb to 80 cm high, with cottony hair, stems from a basal stock. Leaves circular to linear to elliptic, 1--12 cm long, 3--25 mm wide, margins lobed to entire, both surfaces glabrous surfaces or lower surface cottony to tomentose; petiole to 40 mm. Flowers in leafy racemes on scapes to 80 cm; stalks to 50 mm long, bracteoles present. Sepals linear to lanceolate, 3--5 mm long, upper one larger. Corolla 8--15 mm long, yellow, cottony outside, pubescent inside, with or without enations, auriculate; wings to 2 mm wide. Indusium depressed-obovate. Fruit ovoid, 5--9 mm long; valves spreading, bifid; seeds elliptic-oblong, c. 2.5 mm long, pale yellow to brownish, bristly.
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