Stem simple, colourless, 2½-9½ cm, bearing 1-3 sessile or subsessile flowers. Leaves ovate, acuminate, 1-1½ mm. Bracts to 3 mm. Perianth whitish to purplish; tube about 4 mm; limb very short. Outer perianth lobes ovate, acute, about 1-1½ mm; lateral lobes entire. Inner ones minute. Connective not apiculate, forked at the top. Style branches rather long, each bearing an ovoid, in transverse section somewhat triangular, stigma. Ovary obovoid, about 2 mm. Capsule ovoid, to 3½ mm; persistent part of the tube 1½-2½ mm.
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