Slender, erect, scabrid perennial, up to 300 mm tall. Leaves in a ± compact basal tuft, linear, ± bristle-like, margin minutely scabrid towards base. Flowers few, on many, axillary peduncles, pink or white, calyx 15-20 mm long, with broad, membranous, shining margins, petal limb narrowly obovate or oblong, 5 mm long and at most half as wide, lacerate.