Plant a perennial herb. Tuber up to 40 mm wide and up to 20 mm thick. Stem dividing at soil surface to produce few to many spreading, procumbent stems up to 130 mm long and 2 mm broad at the base, covered with short pilose hairs, internodes up to 35 mm, reddish brown. Leaves opposite, arranged on opposite sides of the stem, lanceolate to cordate, 3-8 x 2-5 mm, sparingly pilose on both surfaces. Petiole 1-2 x 0.3 mm, reddish brown, sparingly pilose. Flowers lateral at the nodes, single, held in a vertical plane to the soil, with no distinctive scent. Pedicels up to 35 x 0.5 mm, sparingly pilose, reddish brown, each with a small basal bract. Bracts at base of each pedicel 0.5 mm long, acute, reddish brown. Calyx lobes 1-2 mm long at base, sparingly pilose, acute, reddish brown. Corolla before anthesis forming a truncate orb with terete tip; lobes up to 12 mm long and 1 mm wide, linear, recurved longitudinally, brownish green on inner surface and covered with very short (0.1 mm) purplish hairs; tube 4 mm in diameter, brownish green on outside and inside, not discernible as flat, covered with very short (0.1 mm) purplish hairs. Staminal column yellowish to purplish brown, 3 x 1 mm Outer corona appendages forming the outer walls of the five nectar pouches, each with a 2-lipped 0.5 mm long lobule emanating from the side of the nectar pouch, surface glabrous. Inner corona appendages thin and glabrous, not reaching the top of the staminal column. Follicles paired, up-right, 20-30 x 3 mm, dark reddish brown, each containing 10-20 seeds; follicular walls thin. Seed dark brown, 5 x 3 mm; tuft of hairs 10-12 mm long.
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Dwarf, perennial geophyte. Stems several, decumbent, branched; tuber 30-150 mm long, shortly pilose. Leaves somewhat humifuse, lanceolate, base cordate, 3-8 x 2-5 mm; petioles 1-2 mm long. Flowers solitary, lateral at nodes; pedicels up to 35 mm long. Corolla fused at base into a small campanulate tube ± 4 mm deep; externally brownish green, internally with short purplish hairs; gynostegial column just exposed; lobes linear (wiry), 12 x 1 mm, brownish green with very short purple hairs. Corona: interstaminal corona lobes fused at base into a circumstaminal tube, upper edges produced into two ± 0.5 mm long apical lobules; staminal corona lobes linear, fused at base to interstaminal curtain, forming 5 nectar pockets, appendages not reaching top of gynostegial column, yellowish to purple-brown. Flowering time Nov.? Follicles paired, erect, narrowly fusiform, 20-30 x 3 mm.