Herbs, perennial, robust, spreading, sometimes scrambling in shrubs. Leaves: blade narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate-elliptic, 6--14 ´ 1--3.3 cm, apex acuminate. Inflorescences: distal cyme usually exserted, 1--3-flowered; proximal cyme 2--5-flowered; spathes pedunculate, falcate, 2.3--4 ´ 0.5--1.1 cm, apex acuminate; peduncles 1--2(--4) cm. Flowers blue; medial stamen anther connective without dark band. Capsules 3-locular, 2-valved. Seeds typically only 1--2 developing, dark brown, 2.1--2.8 mm, deeply reticulate. 2n = 90.
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