Cynoglossum novoguineense
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Description
Stout, biennial or perennial plant (base unknown), 50-75 cm at least high.
Basal leaves not seen, stem leaves dark green with short, appressed, soft, antrorse hairs on upper, pale green with irregularly directed, especially along nerves very dense, short, appressed hairs on the lower side, lower stem leaves already dry and vanishing at flowering time, but some still remaining, 6-7.5 by 1.5-2.1 cm, lanceolate, sessile, base rounded or obliquely truncate, widest below middle, acute, middle and upper leaves slightly smaller, 3-6 by up to 1.5 cm wide, even smaller on lateral branches.
Stamens: filaments very short, attached slightly below base of fornices, anthers oblong, scarcely 1 mm long.