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From 12cm, but usually taller. Leaves ovate-elliptic, twisted, up to 1.1cm wide, waxy glaucous, sometimes very pale. Flowers pale yellow, large, flaring, soft pale pink with tepals 2.7-4cm in length, the outers very broadly roundedspathulate, emarginate, the inners narrowly oblanceolate always with a small mucro, the upper pair painted with characteristic long vertical crimson streaks, in umbels of up to ten. Chile, between Chilian and Antuco in montane woodland at around 1000m. Subsp. australis differs in the tepals having no mucros, the flowers being even larger (but in smaller umbels) and rich cerise to intense carmine pink with red streaking over clear yellow. Araucanian Chile at 500-1000m.
