Small creeping herbs, the stems as-cending at the tips, rooting at the lower nodes, glabrous. Leaves ovate-to oblong-elliptic, acuminate, obtuse and subsessile at the base, 3-8 cm. long, glabrous or ciliate at the base; sheaths 0.5-1.0 cm. long, the margins pilose. Peduncles 1-3 cm. long, usually rather densely pilose; bracts more or less con-duplicate, ovate, acute or acuminate, foliaceous, 1.0-2.5 cm. long. Flowers bright pink; pedicels 0.4-0.5 cm. long, minutely puberulent to glabrate; sepals elliptic, keeled, 0.2 cm. long, minutely puberulent; petals 0.5-0.6 cm. long.
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