Authors: Cav.
sticky glandular overall to 12cm tall. Leaves linear, to 5cm long, leathery in texture, their entire margins rolled under to create an almost pine needle-like aspect, hence the specific epithet. Flowering stems erect, brown and with two to five-flowered cymes. Flowers yellow, the upper lip tiny and hooded, about the same width as the calyx, the lower lip boat-shaped, about 1.4cm long, flattened, curving both inwards at the margins and also along its length, tapering to a narrow base from its broad, rather squared off apex. The throat is extensively red freckled. Chile and Argentina from the desert Andes of Atacama to the central cordilleras in rock crevices, dry sandy, gravelly benches and mountain steppe at 2000-3800m. This distinctive species has been grown successfully in an alpine house.
