Small acaulous rhizomatous herb. Leaves long-petiolate; lamina serrate, palmately nerved. Flowers in scorpioid cymes, 4-merous. Calyx campanulate-turbinate; lobes small, persistent. Petals obliquely oblong-obovate, minutely glandular-ciliate. Stamens 8, slightly unequal (the antipetalous ones a little smaller); anthers oblong-elliptic; connective very shortly produced below the anther, extended into a very small posterior appendage (which may be slightly bilobed) and 2 minute anterior tubercular appendages (which may be largely fused). Ovary adnate to the calyx for most of its length, apically depressed, with a crown of 4(–8) conspicuous scales, 4-locular; placentas short, sessile, restricted to the upper part of the axis; ovules numerous; style as long as the stamens; stigma capitate. Fruiting calyx slightly accrescent; capsule with the persistent crown of scales slightly exserted. Seeds obcuneate, minutely papillate.
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