Plants 6-15 cm. tall; stem white, filiform, usually simple, sometimes shortly branched, beset with few, acute, lanceo-late, scale-like leaves about 1 mm. long; inflorescence term-inal, bifid and 3-to 5-flowered or solitary, branches up to 2 cm. long; bracts lanceolate, about 1 mm. long, 1-veined, acute to slightly acuminate; flowers about 8 mm. long; peri-anth white, the tubular part very short, about 1-2 mm. long, the limb about 4 mm. long, the outer lobes ovate to triangular, subobtuse, margin revolute, the inner lobes mi-nute, hardly visible; anther connective broad, rounded-rhomboid, without appendages; style thick-filiform, bearing at the top 3 sessile emarginate stigmas with 2 hair-like ap-pendages; ovary ellipsoid, truncate, up to 2 mm. long, the placenta glands bulging; capsule ellipsoid to subglobose, about 2 mm. long, crowned by the persistent, dried perianth tube.
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