Plants solitary or in groups, with bulbils on caudices. Leaves basal; petiole flattened, 0.4-2 cm; blade ovate to elliptic, 0.5-2.5 cm, fleshy, base attenuate, margins serrate (7-16-toothed), ciliate, surfaces reddish brown-tomentose abaxially, gla-brous or rarely glabrate adaxially. Inflorescences (3-)5-15(-18)-flowered, open, flat-topped thyrses or cymes, 2-7 cm, purple-tipped stipitate-glandular. Flowers: sepals spreading to reflexed, ovate; petals greenish, often purple-margined, not spotted, lanceolate to obovate, not clawed, 1.2-2(-2.5) mm, equaling to longer than sepals; filaments linear, flattened; pistils distinct almost to base; ovary superior, (to 1/3 adnate to hypanthium). Capsules purplish, folliclelike.
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