Shrubs ca. 20 cm tall; usually much branched. Branchlets purplish brown, slender, very leafy, sparsely glandular-hairy. Leaves decussate, usually subsessile; leaf blade linear, ca. 10 × 1 mm, abaxially densely lanate along midvein, adaxially glabrous, base cuneate, margin serrulate, apex obtuse. Inflorescence subumbellate, 3–7-flowered; bracts 2, broadly ovate, 2–3 mm; pedicels geniculate above middle, purple, filiform, to 2.5 cm in flower, elongating in fruit, densely purple glandular-hairy. Calyx purple-brown, cylindric-oblong; lobes strongly deflexed in flower, lanceolate, ca. 3 mm, glandular-pilose. Corolla long-ovoid-urceolate, ca. 8 mm, densely glandular-hairy outside. Stamens 10, included; anthers purple. Style longer than corolla tube, nearly as long as whole corolla; stigma capitate. Capsule subglobose. Fl. and fr. Jun–Aug.
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