Rosettes flattened, solitary or a few tightly clustered together, 3-9cm across, from a slender taproot. Leaves olive-green to fawn-brown, elliptic-spathulate, tapering to a long, broad petiole, dark linear glandular beneath, shortly white ciliate. Flowers in a ring at leaf tip level, up to 1.2cm across, white, sometimes basally veined blue-violet with a yellow eye, spring in the wild. Chile, the southern central cordillera to Araucania in bare hollows of deep, loose volcanic sand, often adjacent to basalt outcrops, at 1700-3200m.
