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Botanical Description

Stems 60-100cm in height. Basal leaves triangular to broadly heart-shaped, long-pointed, 8-20cm across. Flowers dark red in large, erect panicles, summer. Central Nepal to south-eastern Tibet, on open slopes at 3600-4300m. R. australe is similar in form but much larger in all its parts, to 2m tall with red-purple flowers (Himachal Pradesh to eastern Nepal).