Stem simple or branched, 7½-11 cm, bearing 1 or few flowers or a capitate inflorescence, consisting of contracted cymes. Leaves lanceolate-ovate, acuminate, keeled, 1-2½ mm. Bracts to 5 mm. Flowers subsessile. Perianth dirty white; tube aoout 2 mm; limb about 2 mm. Outer perianth lobes ovate, acuminate; lateral lobes crenate. Inner ones small, linear, acute. Stigmas funnel-shaped, curved, dorsally cristate. Ovary ovoid, about 2 mm. Capsule nearly globose, crowned by the 2 mm long persistent part of the tube.
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