Craterocapsa congesta Hilliard & B.L.Burtt

A prostrate perennial herb with a long stout taproot crowned with one or several leaf rosettes from beneath which radiate slender, leafy simple stems terminating in a cluster of leaves surrounding the flowers. Leaves linear-lanceolate, up to 35 x 3 mm, those on the flowering stems about half the length of the basal rosette leaves, margins ciliate particularly in the lower half. Flowers sessile, terminal, usually several crowded together, rarely only one, variable in size, bluish-mauve. Ovary glabrous or ciliate on the ribs, style surrounded at the base by a fleshy disc that, together with the top of the ovary, forms the flattish lid of the capsule.