Herbs 17-21 cm tall. Sterile branches 23-35 cm. Stems brown pilose. Basal leaves several, petiolate; leaf blade obovate, 2.3-19 × 1.3-11.5 cm, leathery, abaxially glabrous, adaxially brown pilose, base cuneate, margin entire or obscurely undulate-crenulate, apex obtuse. Cauline leaf usually 1; leaf blade narrowly elliptic, 1.2-1.7 × 0.5-0.75 cm, abaxially glabrous, adaxially and marginally brown pilose, margin usually ca. 13-crenate. Pleiochasium 3-4.5 cm; branches brown pilose or subglabrous; bracteal leaves with petiole 3-10 mm, leaf blade ovate to broadly so, 0.6-2 cm × 5-14 mm, base cuneate, margin usually 9-15-crenate, sometimes obscurely so, apex subacute. Sepals subovate to broadly ovate, 3-3.2 × 2.5-3.9 mm, glabrous, apex retuse. Stamens longer than sepals, 4-6.5 mm. Ovary semi-inferior; styles erect, ca. 5 mm. Disc absent. Capsule 4-4.5 mm, apex neither truncate nor retuse; carpels subequal; rostrums 3-4 mm. Seeds dark brown, subovoid, ca. 0.7 mm, densely papillose. Fl. and fr. Apr-Jun.
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