Plants 10-20 cm, herbaceous; rhizomes stout, short; rosettes often clumped; vegetative parts farinose only on pedicels and calyx, with prominent farina stripes on calyx. Leaves not aromatic, indistinctly petiolate; petiole broadly winged; blade without deep reticulate veins abaxially, lanceolate to spatulate, 4-15 × 1-2 cm, thick, margins distinctly and evenly denticulate, apex obtuse to somewhat acute, surfaces glabrous. Inflorescences 4-12-flowered; involucral bracts plane, unequal. Pedicels arcuate, moderately thick, 10-35 mm, length 1-5 times bracts, flexuous. Flowers heterostylous; calyx green, with white farinose ridges, cylindric to campanulate, 4-8 mm; corolla rose-magenta, tube 5-15 mm, length 1.2-2 times calyx, glandular, limb 15-25 mm diam., lobes 7-12 mm, apex emarginate. Capsules ellipsoid to ovoid, length 1 times calyx. Seeds without flanged edges, reticulate. 2n = 44.
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