Herbs perennial. Leaves forming a rosette; petiole 2.5--8 cm, usually ca. as long as leaf blade, densely rust-colored pilose; leaf blade broadly oblong to suborbicular, 3--6.5 X 2.5--5 cm, long ciliate, papery, abaxially rust-colored pubescent along veins, adaxially glabrous or sparsely pubescent along impressed midvein, base cordate to orbicular, slightly asymmetrical, margin entire to obscurely repand and remotely hydathode-denticulate, apex rounded, sometimes slightly emarginate. Scapes 2.5--8 cm, elongating to 12 cm in fruit, densely rust-colored pilose; umbel solitary, 3--5-flowered; bracts linear-lanceolate, 2--3 mm, ± pubescent. Pedicel (0.5--)1--2.5 cm, rust-colored pilose. Flowers heterostylous. Calyx campanulate, 4.5--7.5 mm, sparsely pubescent, parted to middle; lobes lanceolate, sparingly ciliate, with 1 prominent midvein. Corolla rose; tube ca. 1 cm; limb 1--1.5 cm wide; lobes obovate, apex 2-cleft. Thrum flowers: stamens 7--8 mm above base of corolla tube; style 3--3.5 mm. Capsule cylindric, slightly longer than calyx. Fl. Mar.
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