Plants annual, slender, not mat-forming. Leaves in single rosette; petiole absent; blade linear-lanceolate, 5-20 × 2-4 mm, base not narrowing to stem, margins ciliate, surfaces minutely hairy, hairs straight. Scapes usually 1, 2-8 cm, hairy to glabrescent. Inflorescences 2-6-flowered; involucral bracts ovate to lanceolate, relatively broad. Pedicels arcuate, slender, unequal, 0.6-6 cm. Flowers: calyx campanulate, without prominent ridges, 3-5 mm, lobes stiffly erect, subulate, apex prominently acute; corolla tube shorter than calyx, limb to 3 mm diam. Capsules slightly shorter than calyx, 2-5 mm. 2n = 40.