Stem simple or branched, 4-14 cm, colourless, bearing rather loose simple or bifid cymes of 3-many subsessile flowers. Leaves acuminate, up to 2½ mm. Bracts up to 3½ mm. Perianth whitish-purplish; limb about 1½ mm; tube up to 4½ mm. Outer perianth lobes ovate, triangular, obtuse; lateral lobes entire, involute. Inner ones small, linear. Connective deltoid, at the top 3-lobed, provided with a forked thickening. Stigmas rather large, soup-plate-shaped, obtuse, cordate, auricu-late at the base. Ovary ovoid, about 1½ mm. Capsule obovoid to truncate-subglobose, 2½-5 mm long; crowned by the 2-2½ mm long, cylindrical persistent part of the tube.
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