Herbs acaulescent; caudex branched. Flowering stems 10-40 cm, short stipitate-glandular and sparsely long stipitate-glandular. Leaves: petiole long stipitate-glandular; blade orbiculate to reniform, shallowly 5-lobed, 1-1.5 cm, base cordate, lobes rounded, margins dentate, apex obtuse, surfaces long stipitate-glandular. Inflorescenses dense. Flowers: hypanthium strongly bilaterally symmetric, free 0.8 mm on abaxial side, 1.8 mm on adaxial side, pink, narrowly cylindric, 5-6.5 mm, short stipitate-glandular proximally, densely long stipitate-glandular distally; sepals spreading, green-and red-tipped, unequal, 0.5-1.5 mm on abaxial side of hypanthium, to 0.5 mm on adaxial side, apex rounded; petals spreading, white, oblanceolate, (clawed), unlobed, 2-2.5 mm (equaling or longer than sepals, rarely shorter), margins entire; stamens exserted to 0.5 mm; styles included to 0.5 mm, 1.5 mm, 0.1+ mm diam. Capsules ovoid, 3 mm, beaks divergent, not papillose. Seeds dark brown, ellipsoid, ca. 0.7 mm. 2n = 14.
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