Authors: Sandwith  

Botanical Description

Shortly columnar with a few ascending branches, or densely caespitose, 2.5-12cm tall. Differs from C. minima in its stems, petioles, bracteoles and calyx being sparsely clad in branched glandular hairs; in its narrowly pointed calyx lobes; in its larger leaves, 5-11 X 4-7mm and in its mass of smaller axial flowers, ringing the top of each rosette. These are expanded into a shorter more open funnel of 6 X 4.5mm, straight-edged exactly like a wee convolvulus, with the inky blue hairy lobes showing through on the inside of the corolla as well. Central southern Argentina and Chile in the lake district at 2000m.