Herbs 3-9 cm tall, glabrous to sparsely pubescent, with crisped trichomes rarely to 1 mm; caudex covered with petioles of previous years. Petioles of basal leaves 0.7-2 cm, thickened, persistent, not ciliate; leaf blade lanceolate, oblanceolate, or linear, (0.5-)1.5-5.5(-7.5) cm × (1.5-)3-5(-7) mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent with crisped trichomes, ciliate, base attenuate, apex acute or obtuse. Cauline leaves absent. Flowers solitary. Fruiting pedicels erect or ascending, 1.5-4.5(-5.5) cm. Sepals oblong or oblong-linear, 5-8(-10) × 1.5-2 mm, pubescent. Petals pink, or light to turquoise blue, obovate to broadly so, (1.5-)1.7-2(-2.5) cm × (5-)6.5-8(-10) mm; claw (0.7-)1-1.5 mm. Filaments of median staminal pairs 4-5.5 mm, those of lateral pair 2.5-3.5 mm; anthers 1.4-1.6 mm. Ovules 16-20 per ovary. Fruit lanceolate, 2.5-3.5(-4.5) cm × 7-11 mm; valves glabrous or sparsely pilose along margin, reticulate veined; septum complete; style obsolete; stigma entire or slightly lobed. Seeds biseriate, broadly ovate, reticulate, 2.5-3.5 × 2-2.5 mm. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Jun-Aug.
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