Herb up to 0.3 m high, with slender elongated rhizomes. Leaves ovate, acute and apiculate, cuneate and attenuate at the base, 20-26 x 7-12 mm, stiff, almost succulent; petiole 2.3-2.4 mm long. Inflorescence of (1-)2(-3) inflorescence units umbellately arranged, with 1 'umbel' in each axil; inflorescence axis 5-14 mm long, longest peduncle of inflorescence unit 3-9 mm long. Bracts: secondary bracts narrowly triangular to narrowly lanceolate, tips narrowly acute, 7-9 x 1.2-1.6 mm, rapidly deciduous, very sparsely strigose on margins and veins, surface with sessile glands when young; tertiary bracts elliptic, tips acuminate to apiculate, base cuneate, 12-16 x 3.7-5.2 mm, with three veins from the base, appearing glabrous to the naked eye, but with small eglandular trichomes and short-stalked glandular trichomes. Calyx: tube 1 mm long; lobes 6 mm long, inner surface with appressed eglandular trichomes and some small glandular trichomes, outer surface dense with eglandular and stalked glandular trichomes, margins and veins sparsely strigose. Corolla: tube 12-13 mm long, with straight and curved eglandular and stalked glandular trichomes; lip in lower position broadly elliptic, 14.5-15.2 x 6.7-7.5 mm; lip in upper position oblong, 14.9-15.5 x 3.2-3.3 mm; corolla white, sometimes flushed very pale pink. Stamens: filaments with curved eglandular and small stalked glandular trichomes on the lower and facing surfaces proximally and a few small glandular trichomes distally; thecae superposed. Disc deeply cupular, thick, not awned. Gynoecium: stigma bilobed; style sparsely strigose; ovary ovoid, first puberulous and with some glandular trichomes, then with eglandular trichomes as well. Capsule with eglandular and stalked glandular trichomes, 7.2-9.2 x 2.5-3.1 mm. Seeds 3.0 x 2.5 mm, rough with tall, minutely hooked tubercles.
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Perennial herb, up to 300 mm high. Leaves stiff, almost succulent. Inflorescence axis longer than 5 mm, so that inflorescence does not appear to be contracted into axil, of (1)2(3) inflorescence units umbellately arranged, with 1 umbel in each axil. Tertiary bracts elliptic, 3.7-5.2 mm broad. Corolla tube 12-13 mm long, lip in lower position 14.5-15.2 mm long. Capsule 7.2-9.2 mm long. Flowers white, sometimes flushed very pale pink.