A farinose plant 30-130 mm tall. Rhizome well developed. Leaves 15-95 x 6-21 mm, obovate to spathulate, denticulate to crenulate-dentate, membranous, with white farina on the under surface. Petiole slender. Scapes 1-2(-3), 7-92 mm long, (2-) 3-12-flowered, slender to fairly stout, glabrous. Bracts 5-9 mm long, unequal, minutely glandular-puberulous towards the base. Pedicel (5-) 15-24 mm long, slender. Flowers heteromorphic, pink-mauve. Calyx campanulate, 6-7.5 (-8) - mm long, ½ cleft, more or less ribbed. Lobes lanceolate, glandularpuberulous. Corolla tube 2-2 ½ times the calyx length; limb 14-24 mm broad, lobes obcordate; throat yellow, exannulate. Capsule obovoid, included in the calyx. Seeds less than 1 mm long, angled.