Undershrub, stilt-rooted; rhizome absent. Stems to 60 cm long, with many very short lateral branches. Leaves: lamina 8.3–15.2 mm long, 0.2–0.4 mm wide, with weakly barbed pilose hairs, apex cuspidate with a pungent mucro c. 0.25 mm long; sheath with weakly barbed pilose hairs. Bracts 11.1–11.4 mm long, 2.0–3.1 mm wide, white, thin, margin pilose, apex acuminate. Perianth: tube 7.2–8.0 mm long, pilose in lower half; throat glabrous; lobes chartaceous, 8.8–10.5 mm long, 2.6–3.0 mm wide, pale blue-pink, fading, pilose on abaxial surface, apex acuminate. Staminal filaments 2.1–2.9 mm long. Anthers 3.5–4.3 mm long, 1.0–1.2 mm wide, yellow, turning orange-red with age, pores terminal or below apex, apex incurved. Style 9.3–10.1 mm long, exceeding anthers, Seeds not seen.
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