Plants solitary or tufted, from caudex. Leaves basal; petiole flattened, 0.7-2.5 cm; blade obtrullate or obovate to ovate, 0.8-2.5 cm, ± coriaceous, base attenuate to ± cuneate, margins serrate to dentate on distal 2/3, ciliate, surfaces tangled, reddish brown-hairy abaxially, glabrous or glabrate adaxially. Inflorescences 3-10-flowered, subcapitate to spicate cymes or thyrses, 2-10(-15) cm, glabrate to sparsely hairy proximally, ± densely purple-tipped stipitate-glandular distally. Flowers: sepals erect, reflexed in fruit, triangular to deltate; petals white, not spotted, obovate, clawed, 1.5-2 mm, ± equaling sepals; filaments linear, flattened; pistils connate to 1/2 their lengths; ovary 1/2 inferior, appearing more superior in fruit. Capsules green, becoming reddish or purplish, folliclelike. 2n = 40.
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