Stems to 9 cm, spreading villous. Leaves crowded near stem apex; petiole 1-16 mm; leaf blade elliptic to rhombic, ovate, or obovate, 2.5-7.2 X 2-5 cm, herbaceous to papery, adaxially densely villous to appressed puberulent, sparsely yellow glandular, abaxially densely villous to sparsely puberulent, sparsely yellow glandular, base oblique, broadly cuneate to subcordate, margin irregularly double dentate to crenate, apex acute to rounded; lateral veins 3 or 4 on each side of midrib. Cymes 2-5-flowered; peduncle 2-5 cm, glabrous; bracts connate at base, broadly ovate, ca. 2 mm, glabrous, margin entire. Pedicel 5-10 mm. Calyx slightly zygomorphic, ca. 4 mm; limb indistinctly 2-lipped, 5-lobed; tube 2.2-2.5 mm; lobes nearly equal, triangular to orbicular, 1-1.5 mm, glabrous, margin entire. Corolla dark purple, to 2.2 cm, glabrous; tube cylindric, ca. 1.5 cm X 4 mm; adaxial lip ca. 3 mm; abaxial lip ca. 7 mm. Stamens glabrous; filaments ca. 1.8 mm; anthers ca. 1.2 mm; staminode 1, ca. 0.6 mm. Pistil ca. 1.3 cm, glabrous; ovary ca. 1 cm. Capsule 1.4-2 cm. Fl. Jun-Jul.
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A herb. It grows 15 cm high. The leaf stalk is 1-16 mm long. The leaves are oval and wedge shaped. The leaf blade is 2.5-7.2 cm long by 2-5 cm wide. There are soft hairs on the upper surface. The flowers are purple. They occur in many flowered flat topped arrangements. The fruit is a capsule. The tip is curved.
It is a temperate plant. In Nepal it grows at 1000-2400 m altitude. In China it grows on stony cliffs in valleys between 2,100-2,700 m above sea level.
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