Rootstock 10 (-20) mm thick, with rather thick roots and often stoloniferous; stolons to 8 cm, covered with minute, narrow, remote scales. Leaves all in a basal rosette, narrowly to ± broadly lanceolate, 20-60 x 3-9 mm, glaucescent, thick and coriaceous, 1-veined; margin remotely and shallowly but acutely serrate, especially in distal half; base long-attenuate into a scarcely distinguishable petiole which persists after leaf is shed. Flowers borne on a rather stout scape-like stem shorter than the leaves. Spike short, loosely capitate, few-flowered. Calyx c. 3.5 mm. Corolla purple or flesh-pink, c. 11 mm; throat c. 2 mm broad; upper lip suborbicular, entire, 3 mm; lower lip with 2 rounded lobes. Anthers sessile in corolla throat. Style usually 7-8.5 mm and included in corolla tube below anthers, very rarely to 11 mm and equalling corolla.