Plants solitary, in clumps, or sometimes mat-forming, with bulbils on caudices, or rhizomatous. Leaves basal; petiole flattened, 0.5-2 cm; blade obovate to elliptic, 1.5-4 cm, fleshy, base attenuate, margins entire or apically denticulate, eciliate, surfaces glabrous or sparsely hairy. Inflorescences 5+-flowered, densely crowded in 1-3 glomerulate, often flat-topped thyrses, 3.5-15(-20) cm, sparsely purple-tipped stipitate-glandular. Flowers: sepals ascending to spreading, ovate; petals white, not spotted, elliptic to linear, clawed, 1.8-3 mm, slightly longer than sepals; filaments linear, flattened; pistils connate to 1/2 their lengths; ovary inferior, appearing more superior in fruit. Capsules purple, folliclelike. 2n = 20.
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