Plants solitary or in clumps, (sometimes gynodioecious), often with bulbils on caudices, or short-rhizomatous. Leaves basal; petiole flattened, 0.5-4 cm; blade narrowly to broadly ovate, 2-7 cm, ± leathery, base attenuate, margins entire or minutely denticulate, usually ciliate, surfaces sparsely to moderately hairy. Inflorescences (15-)20+-flowered, open to ± congested, conic thyrses, (usually branched, lateral cymules ± open), 12-35 cm, densely pink-to purple-tipped stipitate-glandular. Flowers: sepals spreading to slightly reflexed, ovate; petals white, not spotted, obovate, clawed, 2-4 mm, longer than sepals; filaments linear, flattened; pistils connate to 1/2 their lengths; ovary 1/2+ inferior. Capsules reddish or purplish, folliclelike. 2n = 38.
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