Shrubs, evergreen, 0.5–1.5 m. Stems erect, ascending or spreading, not rooting at nodes; branchlets brown to reddish brown, not thorn-tipped, round in cross section, rigid, puberulent. Leaves: petiole 1–2 mm; blade flat to cupped, narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong or linear, 5–16 × 2–8 mm, base obtuse, margins obscurely glandular-denticulate, strongly revolute, glands 14–36, apex truncate to retuse, abaxial surface pale green, villosulous to strigillose, especially on veins, adaxial surface dark green, strigillose, not glandular papillate; pinnately veined, veins not furrowed. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, racemelike, 1.5–3 cm. Flowers: sepals, petals, and nectary deep blue. Capsules 2.5–4 mm wide, not lobed to weakly lobed; valves smooth, crested or not.
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