Perennial herb, forming dense mats, and producing numerous trailing, slender, hairy, nearly terete stems. Petiole very short. Lamina 1.5-4 × 1-2.6 cm, broad-ovate, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, entire, hairy, especially on margins; base truncate; apex rounded or obtuse. Fls axillary, usually solitary. Peduncles > subtending lvs; pedicels slender, hairy. Bracts 6-10 mm long, narrow-linear, hairy, situated c. 5 mm below calyx. Sepals 5-9 mm long, lanceolate, hairy, subequal, the 2 inner sepals narrower and ± acuminate. Corolla 1.7-2 × 2.3-3 cm, broadly funnelform, deep blue inside, with white mid-petaline bands outside and white eye in centre. Stamens unequal; filaments glandular-puberulent towards base. Stigmas filiform, only slightly < style. Capsule not seen.
Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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