Stems up to 15 cm. long, ascending, very slender, herbaceous, hispid with whitish, spreading, obtuse hairs up to 1 mm. long.
Petals ovate-lanceolate, acute, with a short, acute, smooth mucro below the apex, stellately spreading, smooth.
A perennial succulent herb with numerous stems forming tufts, from a vertical woody rootstock.
Follicles ± 1·5 mm. long, smooth, finally contracted into the terminal short styles.
Calyx half as long as corolla, or more; sepals acute, ciliate at the margin.
Anthers 0·25-0·4 mm. long, suborbicular to suboblong.
Flowers shortly pedicellate in few-flowered cymes.
Scales emarginate.