Undershrub with stilt roots 40–110 mm long; rhizome absent. Stems to 70 cm high, with many short lateral branches, occasionally with adventitious roots. Leaves: lamina 7–23 mm long, 0.4–0.7 mm wide, glabrous above with short tufted trichomes below, margin scabrous at base, becoming glabrous, apex obtuse with a pungent mucro 0.2 mm long; sheath with branched trichomes on margin. Bracts 11.6–13.8 mm long, 1.5–2.1 mm wide, creamy white, thin, margin glabrous, apex with vestigial leaf lamina 1.6–2.5 × 0.4–0.5 mm. Perianth: tube 9.9–10.1 mm long, pilose in lower half and upper eighth; throat with tangle of short hairs, lobes thinly coriaceous, 10.2–12.2 mm long 1.7–2.1 mm wide, blue, fading to red, pilose on abaxial side, apex acuminate. Staminal filaments 1.0–2.2 mm long, very dark blue. Anthers 4.7–5.8 × 0.8–1.1 mm, yellow, not turning orange-red with age, pores terminal. Style 10.6–12.0 mm long, exceeding anthers. Seeds not seen.
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