Plants ?perennial. Stems branched from the base upward or onlyat apex, 23-28 cm tall, spreading white pubescent. Petiole ofupper stem leaves 3-14 mm, longer in basal leaves; leaf bladebroadly ovate to broadly elliptic, 1-1.8 × 0.9-1.2 cm, appressedpubescent, apex obtuse or rounded, apiculate; lateral veins indistinct.Inflorescences 1.5-11 cm, few to many flowered, axis with spreadinghairs at base, minutely strigose at apex. Pedicel 1.5-4.5 mm,to 7 mm in fruit, minutely strigose. Calyx lobes oblong-ovate,ca. 3 mm, strigose, with long white hairs at margin, slightlyconnected at base. Corolla blue, ca. 4.5 mm wide; tube ca. 1.1mm; appendages low trapeziform, ca. 0.4 mm; lobes 5, suborbicular.Anthers oblong, ca. 0.5 mm. Nutlets subulate, trigonous-tetrahedral,smooth, with very short hairs; abaxial surfaces deltate-ovate,ca. 1.2 × 1.2 mm, inner surfaces subequal in size, joinedat sharp angles; stipe indistinct. Fl. and fr. Jul.
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