Shrubs, 0.1–0.3 m, matlike. Stems prostrate or spreading, rooting at proximal nodes; branchlets brown to reddish or grayish brown, rigid, tomentulose. Leaves not fascicled, sometimes crowded, not obscuring internodes; petiole 1–2 mm; blade flat or ± cupped, elliptic to oblanceolate, 4–12 × 3–8 mm, base obtuse to rounded, margins ± thick, not revolute, usually entire, sometimes minutely denticulate near apex, teeth 0–3, apex rounded to retuse, abaxial surface pale green, strigillose, adaxial surface dark green, shiny, puberulent, glabrescent. Inflorescences axillary, 1–2.3 cm. Flowers: sepals, petals, and nectary usually blue, rarely pale blue. Capsules 4–6 mm wide, weakly lobed; valves smooth, horns subapical, prominent, erect, intermediate ridges absent.
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