Perennials, ca. 25 cm tall. Stems erect or ascending, sometimes rooting at base, simple or with underdeveloped branches from middle or apically, densely villous with multicellular hairs or hairs only along 2 lines. Leaves 6-8 pairs, evenly distributed, sessile and amplexicaul; leaf blade ovate, 2-3 X 1-2 cm, lower ones smaller, glabrous, base rounded to truncate, margin dentate to crenate toward leaf apex, apex acute to short acuminate. Racemes 1 or 2, axillary in upper leaves, 7-9 cm in flower, to 10-flowered, axis basally puberulent, densely glandular hairy in middle and apically; peduncle 2-3.5 cm; bracts broadly linear to lanceolate. Pedicel straight, shorter than bract. Calyx 4-lobed; lobes lanceolate, 4-5 mm, subequal, with sparse multicellular glandular hairs. Corolla blue-purple, rotate, to 1.3 cm in diam.; tube less than 1.5 mm, glabrous inside. Stamens shorter than corolla. Young fruit strongly compressed, base truncate, lateral angle acute, margin apically ciliate with multicellular glandular hairs, emarginate. Style 4-5 mm. Seeds 2-10 per locule, flattened, slightly convex. Fl. Jun.
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