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Perennial, dwarf shrublet, forming loose clumps or becoming caespitose with exposure, up to 0.15 m high, adventitious roots wiry. Leaves succulent, ovate to lanceolate, upper surface grooved, lower surface convex, covered by rows of rounded bladder cells enlarging at margins, apex blunt. Flowers solitary, golden-yellow shades of orange or deeper crimson with paler centre. Flowering time Oct.-Dec. Capsules pale brown, mostly 5-locular, closing bodies absent, covering membranes reduced to a ledge, expanding keels parallel, valve wings narrow.
Caespitosum, foliis ovatis vel ovato-lanceolatis, imbricatis, supra planis, dorso convexis, 1-1.5 cm. longis, vel in, cultus ramis demum parum elongatis et foliis linearibus canaliculatis, ad 2.5 cm. longis, 4 mm. latis, vaginis ad 3 mm. longis,, omnibus nitenti-papillosis, papillis orbicularibus vel in novellis subconico-elevatis; flores in genere magni, baud tamen bene vis!; petala rubro-aurantiaca, subtus apice purpurea; capsula generis, expansa 1.2 cm. diam.; semina numerosissima, fere orbicularia, areolata, pallide brunnea.
