Plants 5-10 cm tall, cespitose; caudex thick, few branched, densely covered with petiolar remains of previous years. Petiole broadened at base, glabrous, 0.5-1.5 cm; leaf blade orbicular, obovate, or spatulate, rarely oblanceolate, 1-3 × 0.6-1.5 cm, glabrous or rarely sparsely pubescent at margin with exclusively simple trichomes, base rounded or cuneate, margin obtusely dentate or repand, apex rounded or subacute. Flowers 1-4 per rosette, on solitary pedicels from center of rosette. Fruiting pedicels erect-ascending, glabrous, 1-2.5 cm. Sepals ob-long, 7-9 × 1.5-2 mm, glabrous, white or sometimes purple margined. Petals obovate, 1.4-2 cm × 6-10 mm, apex rounded; claw 7-9 mm. Filaments white, median pairs 6-8 mm, lateral pair 3.5-4.5 mm; anthers linear, 2.5-3 mm. Ovules 18-30 per ovary. Fruit linear to linear-lanceolate, 4-9 cm × 5-7 mm, margin straight or undulate. Seeds oblong, 2.7-3.5 × 1.5-2 mm, biseriate, flattened, wingless or narrowly margined proximally. Fl. and Fr. Jul-Sep.
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