Perennial with tap root. Stem 25-45 cm high, thin, strictly erect, with few and short appressed branches of the very dense panicle or unbranched. Basal leaves unknown; lower stem leaves lanceolate, tapering at both ends, flat, up to 9 x 2 cm; petiole about twice as long as the breadth of the leaves; upper stem leaves few, gradually narrower, more acute and with shorter petiole. Pedicels thin, about as long as or up to nearly twice as long as the valves, articulate below the middle. Outer perianth segments c. 1.5 mm long, appressed to the base of the valves. Valves about 3.5 mm long and broad, rounded-cordate in outline, membranous, thinly and distinctly reticulate, with entire margin, all three valves grain bearing, the grain of the anterior valve larger, subglobose.