Plants often mat-forming, long, thin-rhizomatous. Leaves basal; petiole flattened, 4-10 cm; blade broadly ovate to deltate, 4-8(-10) cm, fleshy, base attenuate, margins entire or minutely denticulate, ciliate, surfaces glabrate to sparsely hairy. Inflorescences 30+-flowered, (flowers sometimes almost secund), open, lax, conic thyrses with ± open cymules on lateral branches, 20-50 cm, purple-tipped stipitate-glandular. Flowers: sepals spreading to slightly reflexed, ovate to deltate; petals white, not spotted, obovate, clawed, 2-3 mm, longer than sepals; filaments linear, flattened; pistils connate to 1/2 their lengths; ovary 1/2+ inferior, appearing more superior in fruit. Capsules green or reddish purple, folliclelike. 2n = 20, 38.
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