Perennial herb, 0.2-0.6 m high, glabrous, annual stems from perennial crown. Leaves sessile, oblanceolate-oblong, acute. Inflorescence a terminal, many-flowered raceme. Flowers rose-pink. Sepals oblong, outer 2 cucullate, shortly horn-tipped; inner 2 saccate. Petals broadly obovate, clawed, each with a large papillate appendage.