Undershrub without stilt roots; rhizome short, clonal. Stems to 40 cmlong, with few short lateral branches. Leaves: lamina 6.8–12.3 mm long, 0.5–0.8 mm wide, glabrous, margin finely scabrous, apex acute with a pungent mucro 0.5–0.9 mm long; sheath with branched trichomes on margin. Bracts 7.4–8.3 mm long, 1.2–2.0 mm wide, straw-coloured, margin glabrous, apex with vestigial leaf lamina 1.0–1.8 × 0.7 mm. Perianth: tube 9.3–9.8 mm long, golden, white-golden pilose in lower third; throat glabrous; lobes thinly coriaceous, 8.1–12.5 mm long, 1.3–2.1 mm wide, blue, fading white, occasionally red, pilose on abaxial side, apex acuminate. Staminal filaments 1.2–1.6 mm long. Anthers 4.5–5.7 × 0.8–0.9 mm, apex caudate, base constricted with a short skirt, yellow, not turning orange-red with age, pores terminal. Style 12.1–12.5 mm long, exceeding anthers. Seeds not seen.
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