Plants 2-12.5 cm, herbaceous; rhizomes thin, relatively short; rosettes not clumped; vegetative parts efarinose. Leaves not aromatic, indistinctly petiolate; petiole narrowly winged; blade without deep reticulate veins abaxially, narrowly cuneate or spatulate, 0.5-2 × 0.2-0.4 cm, thin, margins denticulate or with slightly rounded, widely spaced teeth, apex obtuse, surfaces glabrous. Inflorescences 1-7-flowered; involucral bracts plane, ± equal. Pedicels arching at anthesis, capillary, 5-10 mm, length 2+ times bracts, flexuous. Flowers heterostylous; calyx green or with purple stripes, campanulate, 2-4 mm; corolla white, tube 2-4 mm, length 1 times calyx, eglandular, limb 5-8 mm diam., lobes 2.5-4 mm, apex emarginate. Capsules narrowly cylindric, length 1.5-2 times calyx. Seeds without flanged edges, reticulate. 2n = 18.