Plants (3-)5-10 cm, herbaceous; rhizomes short, stout; rosettes not clumped; vegetative parts only slightly farinose on calyx. Leaves not aromatic, indistinctly petiolate; petiole winged; blade without deep reticulate veins abaxially, lanceolate to spatulate, 1-4 × 0.3-1.8(-2.3) cm, thick, margins almost entire or somewhat dentate, apex obtuse or acute, surfaces glabrous. Inflorescences 2-8-flowered; involucral bracts plane, unequal. Pedicels erect to arcuate, thin, 2-25(-35) mm, length ca. 1-2 times bracts, flexuous. Flowers heterostylous; calyx green, sometimes with farinose stripes on ridges, narrowly campanulate, 5-11 mm; corolla rose to magenta-violet, tube 7-14 mm, length 1-2 times calyx, glandular or eglandular, limb to 10-25 mm diam., lobes 5-10 mm, apex emarginate. Capsules ovoid, length 1 times calyx. Seeds unknown.