Plants solitary or tufted, with bulbils on caudices, short-rhizomatous. Leaves basal; petiole indistinct, flattened, to 2 cm; blade spatulate to oblanceolate, 1-8(-10) cm, ± fleshy, base cuneate, margins irregularly serrate (usually with fewer than 12 coarse teeth), ciliate, surfaces hairy. Inflorescences 20-30+-flowered, (flowers sometimes replaced ± completely by bulbils, or bulbils sometimes absent), open, lax thyrses, 10-40 cm, moderately to ± densely purple stipitate-glandular; (bracts reduced). Flowers ± bilaterally symmetric; sepals reflexed, ovate to oblong; petals white, 3 with 2 basal yellow spots, 2 without spots, elliptic to oblanceolate, clawed, 3-5 mm, longer than sepals; filaments linear, flattened; pistils connate 1/2+ their lengths; ovary superior, (to 1/3 adnate to hypanthium). Capsules green or yellow, sometimes purple tinged, or partly purple, valvate. 2n = 20.
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