Herbs 3-10 cm tall, sparsely to densely pilose, with straight trichomes to 1.5 mm; caudex covered with petioles of previous years. Petioles of basal leaves (0.4-)0.8-2(-3) cm, papery, persistent, ciliate; leaf blade linear, oblanceolate-linear, or rarely lanceolate, (1-)1.8-4.5(-6) cm × (1.5-)2-3.5(-5) mm, sparsely to densely pilose, ciliate, base attenuate, apex acute or obtuse. Cauline leaves absent. Flowers solitary. Fruiting pedicels erect or ascending, 1.5-3.5(-5) cm. Sepals oblong to oblong-linear, 5-8(-10) × 1.5-2 mm, pubescent. Petals purple, pink, or deep or turquoise blue, obovate to broadly so, (1.2-)1.5-2.2(-2.5) cm × (4-)6-8(-12) mm; claw 0.8-1.3 mm. Filaments of median staminal pairs (3-)3.5-5(-6) mm, those of lateral pair 2-3.5 mm; anthers 1.2-1.5 mm. Ovules 14-20 per ovary. Fruit lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, (3-)4.5-6.5(-8) cm × 6-11 mm; valves glabrous or pilose at least along margin, obscurely reticulate veined; septum complete; style obsolete; stigma entire or slightly lobed. Seeds uniseriate, broadly ovate or suborbicular, minutely reticulate, 3.5-5 × 2.5-3.5 mm. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Jul-Sep.
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