Herbs (6-)10-22(-30) cm tall, densely tomentose, sparsely glandular on sepals and sometimes on pedicels and leaf blades, eglandular elsewhere, rarely densely glandular throughout; caudex woody, branched, covered with petiolar remains of previous years. Stems simple from caudex, simple or branched above. Basal leaves with petioles (1-)2-5(-7) cm; leaf blade broadly oblong or broadly oblanceolate, (1-)2-8(-10) × (0.5-)1.5-3(-4) cm, margin entire or repand, apex rounded or obtuse. Cauline leaves absent or few, shortly petiolate, entire. Fruiting pedicels stout, slightly narrower than fruit base, (4-)6-12(-15) mm, divaricate. Sepals narrowly oblong, (0.8-)1-1.5 cm × 2-3 mm. Petals pink, creamy white, or yellowish, (1.5-)1.7-2.2 cm × 4-6 mm; claw 1-1.5 cm. Median filaments 1.1-1.5 cm, connate along 0.5-0.9 of their length; lateral filaments 0.8-1.2 cm; anthers narrowly oblong, 3-4 mm. Ovules 40-50 per ovary. Fruit cylindric, (3-)4-7(-8) cm × 2-3 mm, straight or curved, attenuate to apex; style 2.5-6(-8) mm; stigma lobes linear, 2.5-4.5 mm. Seeds oblong, brown, 2-3 × 1-1.3 mm. Fl. Jun-Aug, fr. Jul-Aug.
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