Perennial herb, 0.02-0.20 m high. Leaves polymorphic, lower ones smaller and suborbicular or ovate, upper elliptic to narrowly ovate. Flowers deep purple, solitary or in a few-flowered raceme, in axils of leaves. Flowering time Oct.-Mar.
Densely tufted perennial herb, up to 120 mm tall. Lower leaves ovate, upper ones elliptic, midribs prominent, apices acuminate, mucronate. Flowers purple.