Undershrub without stilt roots; rhizome short, clonal. Stems 9–45 cm long, with many very short lateral branches. Leavers: lamina 3.9–10.3 mm long, 0.4–0.7 mm wide, hispid, margin scabrous, apex acuminate with a pungent mucro 0.4–0.7 mm long; sheath with branched trichomes on margin. Bracts 9.5–9.8 mm long, 2.0–2.9 mm wide, white at base, thin, brown at apex, margin glabrous, apex acuminate. Perianth: tube 6. 8–9.0 mm long, pilose in lower half; throat glabrous; lobes chartaceous, 5.7–12.2 mm long, 2.1–3.5 mm wide, blue, fading to pale blue, pilose on abaxial side, apex acute. Staminal filaments 2.7–3.9 mm long. Anthers 3.9–4.7 × 0.9–1.1 mm, apex incurved, yellow, turning orange-red with age, pores below apex-terminal. Style 9.0–10.0 mm long, exceeding anthers. Seeds not seen.
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