Plants perennial, forming compact clumps, from elongate rhizomes. Stems ascending, branched at base, square, 3-10(-20) cm, gla-brous. Leaves clustered near base of each shoot, sessile; blade green, rarely glaucous, lanceolate (rarely narrowly so) to elliptic-or ovate-lanceolate, 0.8-2 cm × 1-7 mm, coriaceous, base round to cuneate, margins entire, apex acute to acuminate, glabrous. Inflorescences terminal, flowers usually solitary, rarely 2-3 on elongate pedicels; bracts narrowly lanceolate, 2-8 mm, scarious. Pedicels erect, 1-50 mm, glabrous. Flowers 10-20 mm diam.; sepals 5, 1-3-veined, narrowly lanceolate, triangular, (6.5-)7-10 mm, margins narrow, scarious, apex acuminate, glabrous; petals 5, equaling or shorter than sepals; stamens 10; styles 3, ascending. Capsules green to straw colored, narrowly conic, 6-8 mm, equaling sepals, opening by 6 valves; carpophore absent. Seeds light brown, broadly reniform, 0.8-1.2 mm diam., rugose.
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