Plants 6.5-24 cm, herbaceous; rhizomes thin, relatively short; rosettes not clumped; vegetative parts farinose when young, often efarinose in age. Leaves not aromatic, indistinctly petiolate; petiole winged; blade without deep reticulate veins abaxially, elliptic to oblanceolate, 1-4 × 1 cm, thin, margins usually crenulate or denticulate, rarely entire, apex obtuse, surfaces glabrous, often farinose when young, efarinose in age. Inflorescences 3-10-flowered; involucral bracts plane, ± equal. Pedicels erect at anthesis, relatively thin, to 5 mm, length to 1 times bracts, stiff. Flowers heterostylous; calyx green with purple stripes, campanulate, 4-6 mm; corolla white, tube 4-7 mm, length 1-1.2 times calyx, eglandular, limb 6-10 mm diam., lobes 3-5 mm, apex deeply notched. Capsules ellipsoid, length 1-1.3 times calyx. Seeds without flanged edges, reticulate. 2n = 18.
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