Plants slender, without tubers. Aerial leaves with petiole 1.2-4 cm, slender; leaf blade broadly lanceolate or elliptic to ovate, 1.5-3.7 × 0.6-2.3 cm, base rounded or slightly cuneate, apex acute. Panicles 2-9 cm, in 1-3 whorls of 3-9 branches, rarely umbellate. Pedicel 1-2.5 cm. Sepals broadly ovate, ca. 1.5 × 1.2 mm. Petals white or pinkish, equaling or larger than sepals. Anthers ca. 0.2 × 0.5 mm. Carpels 8-12; styles 0.1-0.2 mm, shorter than ovary, stigmatose in upper 1/5-1/3 of their length. Achenes elliptic, ca. 1.5 mm, 1-grooved abaxially; lateral pericarp translucent, thin. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep.
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