Herbs perennial, base with overlapping bud scales; scales reddish, ovate to oblong, 0.5--2 cm. Leaves subsessile, 1.5--4 X 0.6--1.5 cm, slightly emergent from basal scales at anthesis, to 15 X 5 cm and distinctly petiolate at fruiting; leaf blade oblong-obovate to spatulate, tapering to base, apex rounded to obtuse. Scapes less than 3 mm, included in leaves, elongating to 30 cm in fruit, sparsely glandular; umbels (1-or)2-or 3-flowered; bracts linear to subulate, 5--7 mm. Pedicel 1--2 mm, glandular. Flowers homostylous. Calyx broadly campanulate or poculiform, 5--8 mm, minutely glandular, parted nearly to middle; lobes suborbicular to rectangular, glandular ciliate, margin denticulate. Corolla white or blue-violet; tube 7--8 mm; limb 7--10 mm wide; lobes oblong nearly erect, subtruncate or slightly emarginate at apex. Stamens inserted at middle of corolla tube. Style slightly longer than anthers. Capsule disintegrating at maturity.
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