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Information Small, hairy herbs with compact, basal rosettes and a few fairly long thin roots. Leaves 15-25, the old leaves soon disinte­grating, apetiolate; stipules small, fimbriate, auriculate; lamina spathulate; up to 2 cm long, 6 mm broad above, apex rounded, tapered below into a broad, hairy petiolar part; both types of tentacles present; lower surface sparsely hairy. Inflorescence with the scape leafless, sturdy, straight or rarely somewhat curved below, 10-20 cm long, hairy near the base; usually about 8-flowered (3-12) with the rhachis erect; flowers secund, small, seldom open according to collectors; pedicels 2 mm. Calyx-lobes c. 5 mm long. Petals obovate, unguiculate, c. 7 mm long, pink, mauve, violet or white. Stamens with narrowly winged filaments. Styles forked from the base with the stigmatic apex spoon-shaped, membranous. Capsule oblong, 5 mm; seeds ovoid, 0-4 mm black, honeycombed. Fig. 28 : 5.

Information Perennial herb, acaulescent. Leaves in basal rosettes; lamina 0·3–1·5 x 0·2–0·7 cm., obovate-spathulate, glandular; stipules 2–3 mm. long, connate at the base, apex lacerated; petioles 0·3–3·5 cm. long, broadening into the lamina, glabrous or sparsely pilose. Peduncles 1–2(6), 2–17 cm. long, arising laterally from the rosette then curving to become erect, canaliculate, glabrous or sparsely pilose in the lower part, glandular in the upper part. Inflorescence racemose, 3–12-flowered; pedicels 1–5 mm. long, glandular; bracts 1–3 mm. long, linear-elliptic, caducous. Sepals 5, 3–6 x 2–2·5 mm., connate at the base, ± elliptic, obtuse, slightly irregularly serrulate at the apex, glandular. Petals 5, 7–8 mm. long, pink or crimson to reddish-purple. Stamens 5, filaments 5 mm. long. Ovary subglobose, glabrous; styles 3, 2 mm. long, 2-partite to the base with spathulate apices. Seeds 0·3–0·6 x 0·2 mm., black, ovoid; testa usually foveolate.