Plants perennial, compact, pulvin-ate, taprooted. Stems ascending, much-branched at base, 2-10 cm, densely hispid-pubescent, hairs patent, fuscous, multicellular; internodes short; small axillary tufts of leaves absent. Leaves dense below the inflorescence; blade broadly lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate or obovate, 5-10 × 1.5-4 mm, thick and ± fleshy, apex broadly acute to obtuse, hispid, hairs fuscous, multicellular, long; proximal leaves marcescent, sometimes subglabrous. Inflorescences often 1-flowered and compact, sometimes 2-3-flowered cymes, hairs patent, dense, fuscous, eglandular and glandular; bracts lanceolate, with or without narrow, scarious margins, densely pubescent, often glandular. Pedicels straight or ± angled at base and/or apex, 5-12 mm, 1-2 times as long as sepals, densely pubescent with long, eglandular and short, glandular hairs. Flowers: sepals usually purplish, 5-6(-7) mm, herbaceous center narrowly lanceolate, margins broad, making apex obtuse, densely pubescent, hairs long, stiff, glandular and eglandular; petals oblanceolate, 7-9 mm, 1-1.5 times as long as sepals, apex 2-fid; stamens 10; styles 5. Capsules cylindric, slightly curved, 9-12 mm, 1.5-2 times as long as sepals; teeth 10, erect, margins convolute. Seeds brown, 0.8-1 mm, tuberculate; testa not inflated, tightly enclosing seed. 2n = 108.
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