Stems 2-5, 8-12 cm, with 3 or 4 leaves. Basal leaves 2 or 3; petiole 2.5-9 cm; leaf blade abaxially greenish, adaxially brown-green, broadly oblanceolate or narrowly ovate, 1.5-5.5 × 1.2-3 cm, 7-veined abaxially, base narrowed or subtruncate, apex acute. Cauline leaves sessile, not amplexicaul, lanceolate, ca. 1/2 as long as basal leaves, base with sparse, rusty brown appendages. Flower 1-1.5 cm in diam.; hypanthium inconspicuous. Sepals brown punctate, oblong or narrowly ovate, 6-7 × ca. 4 mm, 3-veined, margin entire, apex obtuse. Petals white, brown punctate, rhomboid, 1-1.2 × ca. 1 cm, many veined, base cuneate into a claw ca. 1 mm, margin subentire or undulate. Anthers oblong, ca. 1 mm; filaments 4-5 mm; staminodes 3-4 mm, divided into 3 filiform rays with globose glands at apex. Ovary superior; style short; stigma 4-lobed. Capsule unknown. Fl. Jul-Aug.
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