sepals free beyond attachment to ovary, abaxially glabrous to white villous, adaxially dark red puberulent;

ligule obliquely arcuate or oblique, to ca. 2 mm, glabrous or puberulent, entire or ciliate;

间接的叶舌弧曲的或偏斜，对约2毫米，无毛或具微柔毛，整个或者纤毛；

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bracts obliquely elliptic, ca. 1 mm, concave inside, puberulent at base outside;

苞片斜椭圆形，长约1毫米，里面凹，外边基部被微柔毛；

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corolla tube exserted, saccate-swollen in front at middle, puberulent annulate, 2-lipped;

在前面的外露，囊状花冠筒膨胀在中部，被微柔毛有环，二唇形；

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tube cylindric, ca. 10 mm, outer surface glabrous, inner surface puberulent;

圆筒状的筒部，大约毫米，无毛，内部的外表面被微柔毛地装以面着；

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sepals blue-purple, abaxially appressed puberulent;

萼片蓝紫色，背面贴伏被微柔毛；

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corolla rose, purple, dark purple, to dark red, 2-lipped, puberulent, hairy annulate near base inside;

花冠玫瑰色，紫色，在里面的深紫色，到暗红色，二唇形，被微柔毛，有毛的有环近基部；

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compound raceme pyramidal, to 40 cm, many flowered, yellow glandular puberulent;

金字塔的复合总状花序，在40厘米，多花的，黄具腺被微柔毛；

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sepals blue-purple, abaxially puberulent and sparsely glandular;

萼片蓝紫色，狭披针形，背面被微柔毛和疏生腺体；

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sepals blue-purple, sometimes yellow, abaxially puberulent;

萼片蓝紫色，有时黄，背面被微柔毛；

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leaves sessile; leaf sheath ca. 6 mm, sparsely puberulent on side opposite leaf blade, glabrous elsewhere;

叶无柄叶鞘约6毫米，与叶片相对一边疏生微柔毛，在别处无毛；

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long branchlets yellowish brown or brown, turning yellowish gray or dark gray, initially puberulent;

长小枝黄棕色或棕色，转动淡黄灰色的或深灰色，最初被微柔毛；

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branchlets straight, stout, puberulent, with distinctly raised leaf scars;

直的小枝，坚固，被微柔毛，带有明显突起的叶痕；

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leaf blade abaxially densely gray-white stellate puberulent, hairs twisted, some slender, others robust, adaxially scabrous and stellate;

叶片背面密被灰白色星状被微柔毛的，毛扭曲，一些纤细的，其它人粗壮，正面粗糙和星状的；

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branchlets yellow or pale brown-yellow, turning gray or dull gray, initially with dense glandular hairs, later puberulent;

小枝黄或者淡褐色黄，变灰色或者黯淡灰色，最初具紧密的腺毛，过后被微柔毛；

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filament tube included within corolla, glabrous or puberulent;

花丝筒部藏于花冠内，无毛或具微柔毛；

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culm sheaths purple-green, about as long as internodes, glabrous or puberulent at base, margins ciliate;

竿箨紫色绿色，关于节间倍于，无毛或具微柔毛在基部，边缘具缘毛；

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leaf sheath scabrous and puberulent on lower leaves, glabrous and slightly inflated on upper leaves;

粗糙和被微柔毛的叶鞘在下部叶子，无毛和稍膨大在上部叶片上；

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pedicel bearing a bract and bracteole toward either base or apex, pubescent, puberulent, or glabrous;

花梗向基部或先端生苞片和小苞片，短柔毛，被微柔毛，或无毛；

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stipules linear-subulate, ca. equal to petioles, puberulent, persistent;

钻形托叶线形，近等长于叶柄，被微柔毛，持久；

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branchlets opposite or subopposite, rarely alternate, silvery-gray or gray-brown, puberulent, glabrescent, terminating in a spine;

小枝对生或近对生，很少互生，银灰色或者灰棕色，被微柔毛，后脱落，顶生一刺；

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