Perennial herb with basal leaf rosette, which can be persistent or may fall early.. Stems 14–50 cm long, unbranched to much branched from the base, stem angles smooth.. Basal rosette leaves usually sessile, blade oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 21–36 mm long, 6–10 mm wide, acute or subobtuse; cauline leaves sessile, blade lanceolate-ovate, broadly ovate or lanceolate, 18–70 mm long, 9–11 mm wide, acute, amplexicaul.. Inflorescences corymb-like, partial inflorescences many, each 3–5-flowered; pedicels 15–31 mm long, pedicel of the terminal flower always shorter than pedicels of lateral flowers; bracteoles ovate to cordate, 13–16 mm long, 7–12 mm wide, acute.. Flowers 5-merous.. Calyx lobes: 2 wider than others, ovate to lanceolate, 6.5–11 mm long, 1.5–4 mm wide, acute.. Corolla light purplish with blue veins on the inner surface; tube very short, 0.8–1 mm long; lobes ovate, lanceolate or elliptic, 10–25 mm long, 4–9 mm wide, acute; nectary 1 per lobe, green or yellow with greenish spots around, elliptic, ovate or cordate, 1.8–2 mm diameter, 2.2–3 mm from base of lobes, margin fimbriate, fimbriae 0.7–2.4 mm long.. Stamens with filaments 4.9–7.8 mm long, scale-like projections present at their attachment point; anther oblong, 1.5–2.6 mm long, apiculate.. Ovary ovoid, 5–7 mm long, 1–2 mm diameter; style 0.3–0.8 mm long; stigma bilobed, lobes 0.4–0.7 mm long, 0.4–0.6 mm wide, subobtuse; parietal placentae indistinct.. Capsule ovoid, 13–20 mm long, 4–6 mm diameter.. Seeds brown or light grey, 1.5–2 mm diameter, surface with broken striations or interrupted ridge-like outgrowths.
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