Japan Flora: Perennial soft herb with rosulate radical leaves; leaves rather thick, lanceolate to narrowly so, 4-7 cm. long, 4-10 mm. wide, acute, the sheaths 5-10 mm. long, coarsely pubescent in front as on the margin of the blade; peduncles terminal and lateral, ascending or decumbent, glabr이is, 3-7 cm. long, sometimes with a single bract; cymes densely several-flowered, one-sided, glabrous, the pedicels slightly recurved, 3-4 mm. long; sepals elliptic, rounded at apex, 3-4 mm. long; petals slightly longer than the sepals, pale rose-purple; stamens 3, the filaments bearded; staminodes 3; capsule ellipsoidal, slightly longer than the sepals with 2 seeds in each locule, these about 1.2 mm. long. - Aug.-Oct.

Kyushu (Yakushima and Tanegashima). Ryukyus, China, Philippines, Malaysia, and India