Erect, annual herb, up to 15 cm high, simple or branched at base. Leaves rosulate, (oblong-)lanceolate, 3-6 by 0.75-2 mm, herbaceous, puberulous above, glabrous beneath, base cuneate, apex acute, 1-nerved. Inflorescences laxly umbellate, few-flowered; peduncle 4-11 cm long, terete, puberulous at base, with some scattered pairs of scale-like, 1-1.5 mm long empty bracts; pedicels 0.5-2.5 cm long. Calyx campanulate, 2 mm long, glabrous or puberulous, the lobes triangular, acute. Corolla widely infundibu-liform, 3.5-4 mm long, white, hairy in the throat, the lobes c. 1.5 mm long, oblong or obovate, rounded. Stamens inserted in the tube at c. ⅔ of the height; filament 0.5 mm long; anther orbicular, 0.5 mm ø, cleft at base, dehiscing all around, ciliate along the margin. Pistil 2.25 mm high, styles nearly completely connate, stigma deeply bilobed. Capsule globular, 1.5-2 mm ø, styles short, free. Seed angular-ovoid, brown, reticulate.
Grassland, Eucalyptus-forest etc., locally often common, from 650-2000 m, on Bali, Mt Agung, near Solfatara, even at 3150 m. Fl.fr. March-June.
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