Small, erect plants; basal cataphylls 1 pair, to 1 cm above axil. Leaf blade rather thick, linear to narrowly lanceolate, to 2 cm long. Inflorescence about half as long as subtending leaf, axillary only; peduncle 0.2 cm long; fertile internode 1(2); flowers 3 or 4 per fertile bract, 1-seriate. Fruit white, spherical, perianth segments reflexed.