Shrubs, 0.1–0.5 m, moundlike. Stems prostrate or spreading, arcuate, often rooting at distal nodes; branchlets brown to grayish brown, rigid, puberulent, glabrescent. Leaves both fascicled and not on same plant, axillary short shoots erect; petiole 1–2 mm; blade folded lengthwise abaxially, elliptic to oblanceolate, 4–12 × 2–6 mm, base obtuse to cuneate, margins not revolute, entire or denticulate near apex, teeth 3–5, apex obtuse, abaxial surface pale green, glabrate or sparsely strigillose between the veins, adaxial surface green, glabrate. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, 0.6–1.4 cm. Flowers: sepals and petals white to pale blue; nectary blue. Capsules 4–5 mm wide, usually not, sometimes weakly lobed; valves smooth or slightly rugulose, sometimes ridged, horns absent or weakly developed bulges, intermediate ridges absent.
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