Semi-erect to weakly spreading woody subshrub to 50 cm long. Branchlets not obviously glandular, puberulous; decurrent leaf bases absent. Leaves 3–9-foliolate, 5–11 (–15) mm long, 5–18 mm wide, with few hairs to puberulous; petiole and rachis segments 1–3 mm long; leaflets narrowly elliptic to linear, flat to semiterete, 2–11 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide, entire, concolorous. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, 1–3-flowered; peduncles and pedicels 1–4 mm long. Sepals deltate, 1.5–3 mm long; abaxial surface puberulous or glabrous. Petals 3.5–6 mm long, white to pink; abaxial surface puberulous. Stamens: filaments pilose, glandular-verrucose towards apex; anthers not apiculate. Ovary and style glabrous; stigma minute.
Found in wet and dry conditions in button-grass and sedge moorland, closed or open heath, and in the mats or cushions of other plants.
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