Herbs perennial. Stems ascending, 20--50 cm × less than 3 mm, glabrous or subglabrous. Leaves with petiole nearly absent or to 1.5 cm; leaf sheath 1--2 cm, puberulent; leaf blade elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 5--15 × ca. 2.5 cm, granulate-scabrous adaxially, sparsely hispidulous or glabrous abaxially. Inflorescence nearly as long as distal leaves; peduncle 2--6 cm, hirsutulous; cincinni 2 to several, 1--3.5 cm, alternate, not in whorls, hirsutulous; proximal involucral bracts 5--8 mm, distal ones much smaller, sheathlike and enveloping cincinnus axis, hirsutulous; bracts membranous; pedicels short, ca. 4 mm in fruit. Sepals ovate-orbicular, boat-shaped, ca. 2.5 mm, glabrous, persistent. Petals white, pink spotted, ovate-orbicular, ca. 4 mm. Stamens 6, all fertile. Fruit globose, ca. 5 mm in diam. Fl. Jun--Aug.
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