Planta fera ad 3 cm alta, eaudice saepe 1 cm diam.; folia subfalcate incurvata, supra plana, adulta saepe acute carinata, lat. visa acuminata, supra medium lateraliter compressa, glauca vel glauce viridia, levia, 1-2 cm, vel culta ad 3 cm longa, medio 2.5-4 mm lata, 3-4 mm diam., vagina ad 3 mm.; ramuli floriferi 2-foliati; flores 3-nati pomeridiani vespertinique; pedunculi 5 mm, vel culti ad 1.7 cm., longi; bracteae basales, ad 1 cm longae cum vagina 3 mm; receptaculum turbinatum, ultra glandulas leviter productum, 3 mm longum, ad 4 mm diam.; sepala 5, acuminata apiculata, 5-7 mm, vel in flore culto 7-9 mm, longa, basi 1.5-2 mm lata; petala 2-seriata, apicem versus inferneque angustata, prope medium latissiina, acuta vel subobtusa, laete lutea, 6-8 mm, vel ad 1.1 cm, longa, ad 1.5 mm lata; filamenta epapillata, ad 5 et 6 mm longa, superne cum antheris pollineque aurea; glandulae virides; ovarium concavum. lobis valde compressis distantibus, altitudine apicem receptaculi vix excedentibus; stigmata 5, gracillima, superne haud vel vix attenuata, 5-7 mm longa; capsula generis. Fl. hort. Nov.-Dec. 1932-1935.
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Perennial, caespitose, dwarf shrublet, single or occasionally in loose clumps, up to 0.06 m high, roots thickened, succulent. Leaves lanceolate to attenuate, acute, dark to glaucous-green, bladder cells, apex mucronate, central ones borne upright, outer ones spreading. Flowers solitary, yellow, tinged red below, opening in late afternoon, closing at night. Flowering time spring to early autumn, peaking in Nov., Dec. Capsules 5-locular, closing bodies rounded, expanding sheets reduced, expanding keels linear, valve wings absent.
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