Voyria aurantiaca
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Herbs 10-25 cm tall; roots branched, coral-shaped; stems orange to salmon, variously branched. Leaves narrowly ovate, 3-10 mm long. Inflorescence a cyme consisting of several dichasia, to 30-flowered, sometimes reduced to 1 or 2 flowers. Flowers 5-merous, fragrant; calyx campanulate, 5-9 mm long, tube 2-3 mm long, lobes narrowly triangular to subulate, 2-6 mm long, sinuses obtuse; corolla yellow to orange, trumpet-shaped, 15-25 mm long, tube 10-20 mm long, inner side hairy below insertion of stamens, lobes ovate to obovate or narrowly so, 2-10 mm long; stamens inserted 2-3 mm below throat, filaments 0.5-1 mm long, anthers 0.5-1 mm long, free, apex rounded-truncate; ovary narrowly oblong-ellipsoid, 3-5 mm long, glandular marks sometimes visible, style 7-15 mm long. Capsule oblong-ellipsoid, 6-8 mm long, septicidally dehiscent from base to apex; seeds irregularly saccate, 0.2-0.3 mm long.