Herbs perennial, densely glandular hairy throughout, with sterile basal rosettes and a few flowering stems. Stems sparsely caespitose, rarely solitary, erect, robust, 30--60 cm tall, simple, with very long internodes above. Rosette leaves obovate, 2--4 × 0.5--1.5 cm, both surfaces glandular hairy, base attenuate into distinct petiole; cauline leaves oblanceolate to lanceolate, 3--7 × 0.5--1 cm, becoming smaller upward, base half clasping. Inflorescence 5--10-flowered, racemiform with unequal branches that become very strict and erect and elongated in fruit; cymules 1--3-flowered; flowers nutant at first, becoming erect in late anthesis. Pedicel 4--10 mm, elongating in fruit to 1--3 cm; bracteoles linear-lanceolate, herbaceous, 5--7 mm. Calyx narrowly campanulate, 9--11 × 5--7 mm, densely glandular hairy, longitudinal veins dark brown or brown, glandular hairy. Androgynophore ca. 1 mm, pubescent. Petal claws slightly exserted, cuneate, auricles prominent; limbs ?dark red, 2--3 mm, shallowly 4-fid. Stamens included; filaments hairy at base. Styles included. Capsule ovoid, ca. 9 × 5 mm, equaling calyx. Seeds gray, ca. 1 mm, tuberculate.
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