Rhizomatous or non-rhizomatous perennial herb with persistent basal leaf rosette.. Stems 7–16 cm high, unbranched or densely branched from the base, creeping to erect, rooting at the nodes or not, stem angles smooth.. Basal rosette leaves with ± winged petiole 23–45 mm long, blade lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 11–19 mm long, 5–8 mm wide, obtuse; cauline leaves ascending to erect, sessile, lanceolate, 8–11 mm long, 5–8 mm wide, obtuse, amplexicaul.. Inflorescences uniflorous or few-flowered cymes; pedicels 11–29 mm long, pedicel of the terminal flower always longer than pedicels of lateral flowers; bracteoles oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 8–13 mm long, 3–5 mm wide, obtuse.. Flowers 5-merous.. Calyx lobes oblong or lanceolate, 6–6.5 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, acute to subacute.. Corolla white with purplish-brown median dorsal stripes; tube very short, 0.7–0.8 mm long; lobes elliptic-obovate or obovate, 6.5–7.5 mm long, 2.5–3 mm wide, obtuse, with 1 nectary; nectary circular or ovoid, 2–2.8 mm diameter, 1–1.5 mm from base of lobes, margins naked.. Stamens with filaments 3–3.5 mm long, scale-like projections absent at their attachment points; anther oblong to sub-rotund, 1.1–1.3 mm long.. Ovary oblong, 4–4.3 mm long, 2–3 mm diameter; style 0.1–0.2(–0.3) mm long; stigma minutely bilobed, lobes oblong, 0.1–0.2 mm long, 0.3–0.4 mm wide, obtuse; parietal placentae indistinct.. Capsule oblong, (12–)15–20 mm long, 5–8 mm diameter.. Seeds brown, 1.3–1.6 mm in length, surface with short broken striations or interrupted ridge-like outgrowths.
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