Plants 8-15(-19) cm, herba-ceous; rhizomes thin, short; rosettes not clumped; calyx and upper scape usually at least somewhat farinose. Leaves not aromatic, indistinctly petiolate; petiole narrowly winged; blade without deep reticulate veins abaxially, oblanceolate to spatulate, 1-6 × 0.3-1.1 cm, thin, margins entire or slightly denticulate, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces glabrous. Inflorescences 2-9-flowered; involucral bracts saccate, ± equal. Pedicels erect, thin, 1-8 mm, length 1-1.5 times bracts, stiff. Flowers homostylous; calyx green or with purple stripes, campanulate, 4-6 mm; corolla lavender, tube 4-7 mm, length ± 1 times calyx, eglandular, limb 4-8 mm diam., lobes 2-4 mm, apex emarginate. Capsules ovoid-ellipsoid, length 0.9-1.2 times calyx. Seeds without flanged edges, reticulate. 2n = 126, 88-136.
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