Herbs perennial, laxly cespitose. Shoots dark brown, sparsely hirtellous-pilose, becoming glabrous, internodes 4--12 mm. Leaf rosettes lax, 1--1.5 cm in diam. Leaves sessile, dimorphic. Outer leaves oblanceolate to obovate-oblong, 6--7 X 2--2.5 mm, scarious and whitish when dry, glabrescent or sparsely short ciliate on abaxially raised midvein. Inner leaves narrowly lanceolate to spatulate, 6--7 X 1.5--2 mm, abaxially long white villous on distal part and on margin, adaxially glabrescent, apex obtuse. Scapes solitary, (3--)5--6 cm, scapes and inflorescences sparsely spreading hirtellous; umbels 3--5-flowered; bracts linear, 4--5 mm. Pedicel 8--10 mm. Calyx ca. 3 mm, parted to middle; lobes triangular, long ciliate, apex subobtuse. Corolla pink, ca. 9 mm in diam.; lobes obovate, apex rounded. Fl. Jun.