Plants 1.5-5(-6) cm, herbaceous; rhizomes short, stout; rosettes not clumped; vegetative parts efarinose. Leaves not aromatic, indistinctly petiolate; petiole narrowly winged; blade without deep reticulate veins abaxially, linear-oblanceolate, 1-6 × 0.1-0.5 cm, thick, margins entire, apex rounded, surfaces glabrous. Inflorescences 1(-2)-flowered; involucral bracts plane, unequal. Pedicels erect, thin, 2-12 mm, length ca. 1-2 times bracts, flexuous. Flowers heterostylous; calyx green, narrowly campanulate, 4-8 mm; corolla magenta-violet with bluish tinge, tube 5-8 mm, length 0.9-1.2 times calyx, eglandular basally, sparsely glandular distally, limb 5-8 mm diam., lobes 2-4 mm, apex emarginate. Capsules cylindric, length 1 times calyx. Seeds unknown.