Plants solitary or tufted, with bulbils on caudices. Leaves basal; petiole flattened, 1-3 cm; blade broadly ovate to triangular, 1-3 cm, fleshy, base attenuate, margins coarsely serrate, ciliate, surfaces sparsely to moderately tangled, reddish brown-hairy abaxially, glabrous adaxially. Inflorescences (5-)10-40-flowered, congested, ± glomerate or capitate thyrses, 4-20 cm, usually densely yellow-to cream-tipped stipitate-glandular. Flowers: sepals ascending, ovate; petals white, not spotted, oblong to elliptic, clawed, 2-4 mm, 1.5+ times as long as sepals; filaments linear, flattened; pistils connate to 1/2 their lengths; ovary inferior, appearing more superior in fruit. Capsules purple, folliclelike. 2n = 20, 38, 40, 56.
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