A small tufted plant thinly covered all over by short stout appressed hairs. Stems woody, 2-8 cm high, with several short branches at the top. Leaves erect, involute rolled and apparently subulate, 1.5-2.5 cm long, almost pungent at the tip. Hairs on the leaves reversed. Flowers sessile. Perianth 1-1.3 cm long, covered outside with ascending coarse short hairs: segments united for about half their length, the lobes acute. Perianth with many parallel veins inside, often prominent in the older stages. Fruit 3-4 mm diam., 5-6 mm deep, enclosed by the lower part of the perianth.
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