Herbs perennial, efarinose. Leaves forming a rosette; petiole short, broadly winged; leaf blade oblong to oblong-obovate, 3--6 X 1--2 cm, tapering to base, with multicellular hairs, pinnately lobulate, apex obtuse; lobules irregularly dentate. Scapes to 18 cm, pubescent; racemes 1.5--2 cm, 8--10-flowered; bracts linear-oblong to oblanceolate, to 5 mm. Pedicel ca. 2 mm. Flowers heterostylous. Calyx tubular-campanulate, ca. 5 mm, glandular, parted below middle; lobes narrowly obovate, apex rounded. Corolla deep bluish violet; tube 1--1.2 cm; limb spreading, ca. 1.5 cm wide; lobes obovate, ca. 7 X 5 mm, deeply 2-lobed, with a minute apiculum in sinus. Pin flowers: stamens ca. 4 mm above base of corolla tube; style ca. as long as tube. Capsule elliptic, slightly longer than calyx.
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