Undershrub, usually with stilt roots; rhizome absent. Stems to 40 cm long, with few short lateral branches, crowded at the apex. Leaves: lamina 6.5–1 3.2 mm long, 1.0–1.3 mm wide, glabrous, margin scabrous, apex acute with a pungent mucro 0.5–0.7 mm long; sheath with sparse branched trichomes with branched trichomes on margin. Bracts 6.8–7.5 mm long, 1.6–2.3 mm wide, light green to pale brown, lamina apex and margin with branched trichomes, apex with vestigial leaf lamina 2.5–3.1 × 0.5 mm. Perianth: tube 6.5–8.0 mm long, pilose in lower half to two-thirds; throat with tangle of short hairs; lobes chartaceous, 8.3–11.2 mm long, 2.1–3. 3 mm wide, dark blue, fading to white, pilose on abaxial side, apex acute. Staminal filaments 2.6–3.0 mm long. Anthers 4.9–5.2 × 0.9–1.2 mm, yellow, turning orange-red with age, pores terminal. Style 9.5–11 (–12) mm long, exceeding anthers. Seeds not seen.
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