An erect biennial to perennial? succulent with 4-ranked leaves from a rosulate base decreasing in size up the glabrous stem. Leaves sessile, glabrous, lanceolate, flattened to semicanaliculate dorsally, convex below, with bluntly acute apices curving upwards, green above but turning reddish on the undersurface, margins ciliate. Inflorescence a thyrse with sessile dichasia in the axils of the upper bracts. Flowers sessile to very shortly pedicillate, 3.0-3.5 mm long, tubular but opening up apically. Calyx approximately a third of the length of the flower, lobes triangular, shortly hairy, apex acute, margins translucent, with few cilia or teeth. Petals erect, oblong, white with greenish streak ventrally down the middle, each with a rounded appendage terminally and with a fleshy apex directed inwards. Squamae oblong, cuneate, emarginate. Carpels pyriform, green, style very short, stigma large, dorsolateral.
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