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Scabrid herb, 0.06-0.60 m high. Leaves of flowering shoots linear-subulate or narrowly linear, 50 mm long; sheath very short, membranous. Inflorescences with peduncles up to 200 mm high, simple or more often branched, 3-flowered. Calyx with 2 pairs of bracts, loosely surrounding base. Sepals united, cylindrical, 25 mm long. Petals creamy white or pale purple-pink; lamina small, up to 5 mm long, deltoid or obovate, often recurved, margins crenulate or coarsely dentate incised, suddenly contracted into a narrow claw. Flowering time Dec.-Apr. Fruit a capsule, equaling calyx length. Seeds orbicular.
Slender perennial from a woody, shortly branched base, up to ± 200 mm tall. Leaves in basal tufts, linear. Flowers solitary, on simple or few-branched, slender, axillary peduncles, creamy white or pale purple-pink, calyx 20-30 mm long, with narrow, membranous margins, petal limb obovate, ± 4 mm long, ± 3 mm wide, with a few, short, broad teeth, often recurved.
Slender, caespitose, glaucous herb, up to 400 mm tall. Petal lamina small, up to 5 mm long, deltoid or obovate, often recurved, margin crenulate or coarsely dentate-incised. Flowers white or pale purplish pink.
