Compact rosulate herb. Stem stout, to 7 cm long but often much shorter and sometimes largely absent. Leaves dark green and shining above, pale green to whitish or sometimes purplish beneath; blade broadly ovate to orbicular, 2–5 cm long, 1.5–4.5 cm wide, base rounded to cordate, margin crenate(-serrate), apex rounded to broadly obtuse, upper surface with rather sparse long erect or arched hairs, the margin with more dense mixed long and short hairs; lateral nerves (4–)5–6 pairs, conspicuous beneath; petiole 1–7.5(–11) cm long, pilose and with shorter subappressed hairs. Inflorescences 1–4(–6)-flowered; peduncles 1–6 cm long; pedicels 7–19 mm long, both spreading- to antrorse-pilose and with numerous shorter hairs, these spreading to subappressed; bracts linear, 1–5 mm long, pilose. Calyx lobes lanceolate, 2–4.5 mm long in flower, extending to 2.5–6 mm in fruit, outer surface with ascending hairs of variable length. Corolla pale lilac to almost white with a darker purple spot towards the base of the upper lip or blue-purple throughout, shortly pubescent and with occasional longer hairs on the limb outside, with short glandular and/or eglandular hairs along the margin of the lobes; tube 1.5–3 mm long; limb (8–)15–25 mm long; upper lip (3.5–)5.5–9.5 mm long, lobes (rounded-)elliptic or somewhat obovate, (2.5–)4.5–7.5 mm long, (2–)4–7.5 mm wide; lower lip (4.5–)9–14.5 mm long, lobes (oblong-)elliptic or somewhat obovate, (3.5–)5.5–10.5 mm long, (3–)4.5–9.5 mm wide. Filaments slender, (2–)3–4.5 mm long; anther thecae 1–1.5 mm long; staminodes 3, minute. Ovary conical, 1.5–3 mm long, densely appressed-pubescent, narrowed into the style, 2.5–4.5 mm long; stigma ± bilobed, (0.3–)0.6–1.3 mm diameter, papillose. Capsule conical to cylindric, 7–16(–20) mm long, 1.2–2.5(–3.5) mm diameter, sometimes asymmetric, apex tapered, surface shortly pubescent, style ± persistent. Seeds 0.45–0.5 mm long, verruculose with longitudinal ridges. Fig. 7: 14 (leaf indumentum), p. 58.
