Plants 2-15 cm, herbaceous; rhizomes thick, short; rosettes not clumped; vegetative parts completely efarinose. Leaves not aromatic, indistinctly petiolate; petiole winged; blade without deep reticulate veins abaxially, linear-lanceolate, 4-5 × 0.2-0.4 cm, fleshy, margins entire or remotely denticulate, apex acute, surfaces glabrous. Inflorescences 1-3(-6)-flowered; involucral bracts plane at base, ± equal. Pedicels erect to slightly reflexed, somewhat thick, 2-10 mm, length ca. 1-2 times bracts, flexuous. Flowers heterostylous; calyx green or greenish black, campanulate, 5-7 mm; corolla rose-magenta, tube 5-7 mm, length 1 times calyx, eglandular, limb 10-20 mm diam., lobes 5-10 mm, apex unlobed or rarely cleft to base. Capsules broadly cylindric, length 2 times calyx. Seeds without flanged edges, vesiculate. 2n = 22.
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