Weak shrub to 60 cm high. Branchlets erect, smooth, sparsely stellate-hairy when young. Leaves erect, slender, semiterete, 5–15 mm long, acute to obtuse, glabrous (or sparsely pilose when young), ±concave adaxially, rounded abaxially. Flowers in compact heads 1–3 cm diam., the axis sometimes growing out before flowering is over; bracts foliar and herbaceous or scarious and suborbicular; pedicels 1–4 mm long, pilose; bracteoles boat-shaped. Sepals linear-attenuate to triangular, 2–5 mm long, pilose or glabrous. Petals elliptic to broadly obovate, 5–9 mm long, slightly thickened at apex, otherwise thin, blue to pink, glabrous or pilose. Stamens: filaments linear-attenuate, 4–5 mm long, prominently long-ciliate; anthers broadly elliptic, 0.5–1 mm long, minutely white-apiculate. Style 0.5–1 mm long, glabrous. Cocci c. 3 mm long, with short erect rostrum, ±glabrous.
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