Plants perennial. Roots ± thickened, carrot-shaped, sometimes branched. Stems several from one caudex, almost entirely prostrate, 30-45 cm. Leaves withered during anthesis except uppermost, sessile; blade ovate to ovate-orbicular, 7-11 mm, abaxially densely tomentose, adaxially densely appressed hispid, margin crenate. Flowers terminal, erect or declined somewhat. Hypanthium gyroidal, densely hirsute; calyx lobes triangular, densely tomentose, margin with a pair of teeth. Corolla purple or blue-purple, tubular-campanulate, ca. 8 mm; lobes equaling tube. Style ca. 5 mm. Capsule obovoid-conical, 4-5 × 3-4 mm. Seeds yellow-brown, elliptic, slightly compressed, ca. 0.5 mm, smooth. Fl. Oct-Dec.
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