Autotrophic annual, 15-30 cm. Stem simple, bearing 1-3, shortly pedicellate flowers. Rosulate leaves few, linear, acute or acuminate, 1-nerved, 4-8 by 1 mm. Stem leaves scale-like, appressed, linear, acute, 2-5 mm. Bracts linear-lanceolate, acute, 1½ mm. Flowers prominently 3-winged, 6-8 mm. Outer perianth lobes acute, with involute margin, 1 mm. Inner ones broadly ovate, obtuse, nearly ½ mm long. Perianth tube cylindrical, 3 mm. Connective rather broad, provided with 2 apical, divergent, obtuse crests. Thecae bright yellow, appressed against the connective and connate below the basal connective margin. Basal hanging spur lacking. Style as long as the tube, branching into 3 short branches, each bearing a peltate, disk-shaped stigma. Ovary ellipsoid to obconical, 2½-4mm. Flower wings half oblanceolate, decur-rent along the pedicel, 8 by 2 mm. Capsule ellipsoid, dehiscing with transverse slits, 4-6 mm. Seeds scobi-form, yellow.
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