Slender plants up to 20 cm.. Rhizome short; roots, thin in the proximal parts, swelling to elongated tubers distally.. Leaves rosulate, filiform or narrowly linear, 10–25 cm. long, 1–4 mm. wide, glabrous except for the sometimes scabrid margins;basal sheaths whitish to purplish.. Peduncle reduced so that the lower flowers/fruits are found within the leaf-rosette.. Inflorescence a simple raceme, rarely branched below, 2–5 cm. long, prostrate; rhachis glabrous to slightly scabrid; floral bracts ovate-acuminate, up to 5 mm. long.. Pedicels articulated near or below the middle, glabrous, ± curved, 2–5 mm. long at anthesis, up to 1 cm. in fruit, 2-nate at the lower nodes.. Flowers small and inconspicuous, whitish to yellowish with green dorsal bands; tepals 3–5 mm. long, 3-veined.. Stamens 3–4 mm.; filaments ± 2.5 mm., glabrous; anthers 0.5–1 mm. long.. Capsule deeply triquetrous, large compared to the size of the plant, 8–10 mm. long, 5–6 mm. wide when ripe, with withered perianth at the base.. Seeds ± saucer-shaped, 2 mm. in diameter.
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