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Leaves on flowering stems scale-like and barely perceptible; those on sterile stems glaucous, narrowly linear, twisted and fairly acute. Flowers in loose umbels of two to six. Of two subspecies, subsp. diluta possesses flowers which in general have slightly larger (3-5cm long), and also narrower obovate outer tepals, ranging from steely cream to pale crimsonish ivory with strong crimson-lake dashes on the inner-upper segments which join to form a patch near the tip. The more northerly subsp. chrysantha seldom exceeds 4cm in tepal length, with the ground colour either pure golden-yellow or some combination of yellow and pink. Its patterning is similar but brownish red. Shared characteristics are the flaring funnel flower shape with narrowly oblanceolate inner segments and inrolled, pointed tips tinged with the same dark pattern colour. Chile, in the central southern valley and via the coast to the fringe of the northern desert at sea level to 400m.
Joint Rock: Joint Rock Awards, AGS Summer North Show (Bakewell), 15 June 2014
