Plants perennial, 15--40 cm tall, with violet multicellular glandular hairs throughout. Rootstock robust, lignified, brown, without stolons. Stems clustered, erect, simple, basally usually violet. Cauline leaves 2--6 pairs, narrowly orbicular or lanceolate, 3--7 cm × 5--12 mm, glandular villous, midvein prominent, base cuneate, apex acute. Flowers 1--3, slightly nutant, erect in late anthesis. Pedicel 3--5 cm, densely glandular villous; bracts lanceolate. Calyx cylindric-campanulate, slightly inflated-saccate, 2.3--2.7 × 1--1.5 cm, densely violet glandular hairy, open at apex; longitudinal veins dark violet, hairy; calyx teeth broadly triangular, 4--6 mm, margin ciliate, apex acute. Androgynophore ca. 5 mm, villous. Petals exserted 3--6 mm beyond calyx, violet; claws cuneate, ca. 15 × 6 mm, with auricles, subglabrous at base; limbs square, shallowly 4--6-lobed, lobes rounded or laciniate; coronal scales broad, rounded to slightly erose. Stamens slightly exserted beyond corolla throat; filaments glabrous. Styles included. Capsule ovoid. Seeds probably winged. Fl. Aug--Sep.
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