Stem 7-13 cm, simple or branched, white, lilac or rose-coloured, forked into a bifid cincinnus or bearing a simple cincinnus of 1-3 flowers. Leaves ovate, acuminate, 1-2 mm. Bracts to 3 mm. Pedicels 1-4 mm. Perianth white, limb 2½ mm, tube 1½ mm. Outer perianth lobes ovate, obtuse; lateral lobes crenate. Inner ones small, rather broad, obovate, obtuse. Tube swollen at the insertion of the stamens. Connective quadrangular, acute-api-culate at the apex. Stigmas rather large, soup-plate-shaped. Ovary obconical, swollen in the upper part, about 1½ mm. Capsule thick-ellipsoid, about 3-3½ mm, crowned by the short, cylindrical to conical, 2 mm long, persistent part of the tube. Seeds brownish, fusiform, reticulate.
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