Plants small, up to 15 cm. high.. Rhizome horizontal, moniliform, covered by a mass of dense roots, bearing some fibrous remains of old leaf-bases; roots thick, short, spongy, occasionally reduced to subsessile tubers.. Leaves ± prostrate, lanceolate, obtuse to acute, densely pubescent on nerves beneath, glabrous above, up to 10 cm. long, 1–2 cm. wide, margins occasionally wavy, ciliate; cataphylls prominent, reddish.. Peduncle short, terete, purplish pubescent.. Inflorescence dense, unbranched, up to 3.5 cm. long; floral bracts lanceolate, purple-ciliate, 5–10 mm. long.. Pedicels articulated at the apex, up to 1.5 mm. long in fruit, solitary at the nodes.. Perianth campanulate; tepals connate, white, papillose at the constriction, up to 5 mm. long, 1-veined.. Stamens as long as the perianth; filaments filiform, up to 5 mm. long; anthers 1 mm. long.. Style straight, exserted.. Capsule small, triquetrous, ± 1.5 mm. long, 3 mm. wide.. Seeds few, flat to saucer-shaped, ± 1.5 mm. in diameter.
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