Perennial rosulate, rhizome poorly developed. Leaves suberect, up to 120-250 x 40-55 mm, mar-gin crenate, base cuneate, decurrent on the petiole; petiolode 10-15 x 6-8 mm, red-brown to green, pilose. Inflorescence 1-or 2(to 4)-flowered; pilose with glandular and filiform trichomes throughout; peduncle up to 100-240 mm, maroon to green; bracts lanceolate, 2-3 x 0.75 mm; pedicel 9-15mm. Calyx segments linear, 5.5-6.5 mm, glandular pilose. Corolla broadly infundibuliform, tube white,24-29 x 3 mm broadening to 10 mm in the throat, bent in the lower third; pilose with glandular and filiform trichomes on the outside; yellow stripe on the tube floor sometimes broadened in the basal third; lower limb 15-20 mm long, lobes 10-15 x 10-12 mm, pale methyl violet with darker central stripes; upper lobes 7-13 x 10-11mm. Stamens 2; filaments 8-9 mm, white, with stalked glandular trichomes; anthers connate; staminodes 2-3 x 0.5 mm, glabrous. Pollen prolate, 17-20 x 9-10 gum, tricolpate; mesocolpium diffusely perforate, scabrate. Ovary 10-14 mm long, densely pubescent, green; style 8-12 mm long, glandular, white. Fruit 80-110 x 2.5 mm. Seeds 0.5-0.7 mm long, sculpturing reticulate.
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