Herbs perennial, efarinose, with overlapping small membranous basal bud scales. Petiole to 2 cm; leaf blade obovate to broadly oblanceolate, 14--20 X 4--8 cm, tapering to base, papery when dry, abaxially densely minutely glandular hirsute, with multicellular hairs along midvein, adaxially minutely glandular hirsute, margin irregularly crenate to crenulate-lobulate, apex rounded. Scapes 18--24 cm, ± pubescent; umbels 6--11-flowered; bracts linear-lanceolate, 3--5 mm. Pedicel 1.5--2.5 cm, glandular pubescent. Flowers heterostylous. Calyx campanulate, 8--9.5 mm, sparsely glandular pubescent, parted nearly to middle; lobes triangular, ciliolate, apex subacuminate. Corolla blue; tube 1.3--1.4 cm, puberulous inside; limb ca. 2 cm wide; lobes cuneate-oblong, apex retuse. Pin flowers: stamens ca. 5 mm above base of corolla tube; style slightly exserted. Thrum flowers unknown. Capsule discoid, shorter than calyx. Fl. Apr.
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