Plants solitary or tufted, with bulbils on caudices. Leaves basal; petiole broadly flattened, 1-2 cm; blade elliptic to broadly ovate, 1-3 cm, fleshy, base attenuate, margins shallowly serrate (teeth to 1 mm), densely ciliate, surfaces tangled reddish brown-hairy. Inflorescences 15+-flowered thyrses with flowers crowded at branch tips, 7-60 cm, ± hairy, also with some purple-tipped glandular hairs. Flowers: sepals reflexed, ovate to triangular; petals white, with 2 basal yellow spots (spots distinct even in dried material), elliptic to spatulate, clawed, 2-4 mm, longer than sepals; filaments strongly club-shaped, (longer than petals); pistils distinct almost to base; ovary superior, (to 1/3 adnate to hypanthium). Capsules green to purplish, folliclelike. 2n = 20, 40.
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