Psychrophila introloba (F.Muell.) W.A.Weber

Tufted herb, 3–12 cm high. Rhizomes ± fleshy. Leaves in rosettes; petiole 2–12 cm long, lower half membranous; lamina narrow-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 1–4 cm long, 5–20 mm wide, ± entire, acute to emarginate; basal appendages linear to lanceolate, 5–25 mm long, inflexed, attached at junction of petiole and lamina. Flowering stems short, thick, elongating to 10 (–20) cm long in fruit. Flowers at anthesis virtually sessile, sweet-scented. Tepals 5 (–8), spreading, narrowly lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 1–3.5 cm long, short-acuminate, white, sometimes tinged or streaked magenta. Stamens 12–25; filaments 3–10 mm long, flattened; anthers ovoid, c. 1 mm long. Carpels mostly 5–15; styles persistent. Fruiting follicles in a head 10–20 mm diam., sessile, beaked; seeds 1–5, ovoid, smooth, pale brown.

Grows in moss-beds, often flowering under snow and at the edges of receding snow-drifts.