Perennial, consisting of 1-few leaf-rosettes, up to 0.2 m when flowering. Leaves 4-ranked, sessile, obovate to orbicular, dorsiventrally flattened, 8-30 x 10-35 mm, glabrous, but with marginal cilia. Flowers pedicellate, in several, ± equidistant clusters in a spike-like inflorescence on a glabrous peduncle 5-180 mm long, tubular, petals 3-4 mm long, fused in lower 0.6 mm, pale yellow, often tinged red.