Caespitose, glaucous herb. Flowering shoots branched from near the base, leafy below, branches bearing solitary terminal flowers. Leaves rather short, 2 × 2·5 cm. × 1·5–2 mm., about half as long as the subtended internode; lamina thin, conspicuously and evenly 3-nerved from base to apex; sheath very short, minutely hispid. Calyx bracts 4, lower pair markedly smaller than upper pair, upper pair lanceolate-elliptic, c. 1·0 cm. × 4 mm. with an acute and minutely apiculate apex. Calyx c. 3·5 cm. × 4 mm., with lobes c. 7 mm. long. Anthophore c. 3 mm. long. Petal-lamina white or pale pink, obovate-elliptic, deeply pinnately fimbriate, fimbriae up to 1·2 cm. long; stigmas exserted c. 1·0 cm. beyond petals.