Biennials 2-8 cm tall. Stems purple, ascending, simple or few branched from base, densely papillate. Basal leaves with petiole 2.5-3 mm; leaf blade linear-elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 1.3-1.7 cm × 2-3.5 mm, margin ciliolate, apex acuminate, midvein distinct. Stem leaves widely spaced; petiole tube 0.7-1 mm, abaxially papillate; leaf blade lanceolate, elliptic, or ovate, 3-8 × 1.5-2.5 mm, shorter than internodes, margin ciliolate, apex obtuse, midvein distinct. Flowers few to many. Pedicel purple, 2-7 mm, densely papillate. Calyx narrowly obconic, 5-6 mm; lobes filiform to filiform-subulate, 1.5-2 mm, margin smooth, apex acuminate, midvein distinct. Corolla pale purple, narrowly obconic, 8-10 mm; lobes ovate, 2.5-2.7 mm, margin entire, apex obtuse; plicae ovate, 1-1.2 mm, margin entire or 2cleft, apex obtuse. Stamens inserted just below middle of corolla tube, equal; filaments 3.5-4 mm; anthers ellipsoid, 0.8-1 mm. Style 0.5-0.7 mm; stigma lobes oblong. Capsules narrowly obovoid, 5-6 mm; gynophore to 1.3 cm. Seeds light brown, ellipsoid to ovoid, 0.7-0.9 mm. Fl. and fr. Apr.

* Grassland slopes; 1400-2400 m. Taiwan.