Stem up to 17 cm, forked into a bifid cincinnus or bearing a simple cincinnus. Leaves acute, often keeled, appressed, 1-2½ mm. Bracts ovate, obtuse, scale-like. Pedicels 1-5 mm. Inflorescence often loose and many-flowered. Perianth white or lilac; tubular part up to 4 mm; limb about 2½ mm. Outer perianth lobes ovate, obtuse, provided with a narrow, crenate lateral lobe at both sides. Inner ones linear-lanceolate, minute. Stigmas curved, funnel-shaped, inappendiculate. Capsule about 3 mm.