Erect or prostrate herb to 20 cm. Stems glabrous. Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, tapering at base, 20-50 mm long, 8-15 mm wide; margins undulate. Inflorescence a single terminal or axillary flower or a very shortly pedunculate, few-flowered terminal cyme; pedicels 10-30 mm long. Flowers 10-15 mm diam., pale pink to mauve. Sepals 7-8 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, spreading. Petals 7-8 mm long, 3 mm wide. Stamens 5-6 mm long; filaments 4-4.5 mm long; anthers c. 1.5 mm long. Ovary glabrous; style 2-3 mm long; stigmas 3-3.5 mm long. Capsule ovoid, rugose, 5-8 mm diam. Seeds few, globose or angular due to pressure in capsule, c. 3 mm diam., yellow or brown; strophiole expanded, irregular.
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