Caudexes robust, branched, with persistent scales toward apex; scales ovate or lanceolate, ca. 4 mm. Stems caespitose, simple or branched below, white villous. Leaves alternate, gradually increasing in size toward apex, shortly petiolate; blade elliptic, narrowly elliptic, or oblanceolate, 4-12 × 1.5-4 mm, both surfaces white hirsute, base cuneate or attenuate, margin revolute, subentire, or sinuous, apex obtuse or acute. Flowers solitary, terminal on main stems and branches, subtended by a whorl-like aggregation of 4 or 5 leaves; pedicels 4-13 mm, hirsute. Calyx densely or sparsely hirsute with yellow-brown stiff hairs, rarely glabrous; tube narrowly ellipsoid, 5-10 mm; lobes triangular, 2-4 mm, inside densely white hirsute, margin long ciliate. Corolla dark blue or blue-purple, 25-38 mm, outside glabrous, inside densely villous at throat; lobes narrowly obovate or oblong, ca. 2/3 as long as tube. Ovary subequal to calyx tube in length at anthesis; style extended up to corolla throat. Capsule exserted beyond calyx, 5-loculicidal, 10-13 mm. Seeds pale brown, oblong. Fl. Jul-Sep, fr. Sep-Oct.
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