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Corolla blue, mauve to purple; tube 7–10 mm. long, straight except base where markedly curved, subglabrous to densely pilose without, densely pilose at throat; limb 5.5–8.5 mm. in diam.; lobes 2.5–4 x 1.5–3.8 mm., circular to broadly obovate, unequal.
Calyx (4.5)6–7.5(11) mm. long, obscurely 10-ribbed, 5-lobed, pilose below with long, white hairs; lobes (1.5)3.5–5 x (0.5)0.8–1 mm., lanceolate, glabrous.
Bracts 6–10 x 1.75–3.5 mm., oblong-lanceolate, obovate or elliptic, 1-nerved, entire to laxly minutely dentate, glabrous, ciliate to hispid-pilose.
Annual or perennial, prostrate herb; stems many, arising from woody tap-root usually much branched, terete, subglabrous to short or long pilose.
Flowers pedicellate, solitary in axils of leaf-like bracts throughout greater part of stem.
Bracteoles 4.5–5.5 x c. 0.6 mm., linear to linear-subulate, subglabrous.
Capsule c. 4 x 2.8–3.8 mm., obovoid-cylindrical to subcircular.
Pedicels 1–1.5 mm. long.
