Stems several, branched from base, ca. 12 cm tall, appressed or spreading, moderately densely minute hispid, not bristly. Petiole of basal and lower stem leaves to 1.5 cm; leaf blade narrowly oblanceolate to narrowly oblong, 3-4 cm × 5-7 mm, base attenuate, apex subobtuse to subacute; upper leaves sessile, oblong to narrowly oblong, 1.5-3.5 cm, moderately densely short strigose. Inflorescences terminal; bracts triangular to narrowly elliptic, 1-6 mm. Pedicel and inflorescence branches gray short strigose. Flowers crowded. Calyx ca. 2 mm, parted nearly to base; lobes narrowly triangular, densely hispid outside, apex sparsely strigose inside. Corolla blue; tube ca. 1.2 mm, glabrous; appendages lunate, ca. 0.2 mm, apex short pubescent; limb ca. 2 mm wide, glabrous; lobes suborbicular. Anthers narrowly elliptic, ca. 0.7 mm. Nutlets ovoid, ca. 2.4 × 1.5 mm, with few tubercles, glabrous; aperture in upper part of abaxial surface, narrowly oblong, ca. 1 mm; attachment scar near base. Fl. Jul-Aug.
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