Plants winter annual or annual. Taproots filiform. Stems erect or ascending, green, 9-20 cm, glabrous, internodes of all stems 2-7 times as long as leaves. Leaves overlapping proximally (basal rosette absent at flowering), connate proximally, with ± loose, scarious sheath 0.2-0.5 mm; blade ascending to spreading, green, 1-veined abaxially, flat, linear, 5-20(-30) × 0.5 mm, flexuous, margins not thickened, slightly scarious, smooth, apex green to purple, rounded to acute, dull, glabrous; axillary leaves absent. Inflorescences 8-15-flowered, open, leafy cymes; bracts linear to subulate, mostly herbaceous. Pedicels 0.5-2 cm, glabrous. Flowers: hypanthium disc-shaped; sepals obscurely veined, oblong-lanceolate, lanceolate, to elliptic (herbaceous portion oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate to elliptic), 1.5-4 mm, to 4.5 mm in fruit, apex green, ± rounded, not hooded, glabrous; petals clawed, broadly obovate, 1.5-2.2 times as long as sepals, apex rounded, shallowly notched. Capsules on stipe 0.1 mm or shorter, broadly ellipsoid, 3.5 mm, shorter than sepals. Seeds brown, obliquely triangular with adaxial groove, radicle prolonged into short beak, compressed, 0.5-0.8 mm, low-tuberculate. 2n = 20.
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