Undershrub with stilt roots 30–55 mm long; rhizome absent. Stems 8–50 cm long, with several short lateral branches. Leaves: lamina 4.5–8.5 mm long, 0.5–0.9 mm wide, often appressed to stem, glabrous, margin with dendritic trichomes, apex obtuse, mucro absent (rarely to 0.2 mm). Apical lamina exceeding length of perianth tube by c. half their length; sheath almost glabrous to scattered with short dendritic trichomes, the hairs longer on the margin. Bracts 9.3–10.9 mm long, 1.3–1.6 mm wide, pale brown, thin, margin with dendritic trichomes, apex with vestigial leaf lamina 0.8–2.5 mm long, 0.3–0.4 mm wide. Perianth: tube 7.7–8.8 mm long, pilose in lower third and upper one-fifth; short tangled barbed hairs in throat; lobes thinly coriaceous, 10.6–13.1 mm long, 3.2–3.5 mm wide, apex acuminate, margin blue, fading to pale blue, centre wine red, not fading, pilose on abaxial side. Staminal filaments 2.7–3.8 mm long. Anthers 4.0–4.1 × 1.2–1.3 mm, yellow, not turning orange-red with age, pores terminal. Style 9.5–10.8 mm long, exceeding anthers. Seeds not seen.
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