Gracile glabrum humile, laxe ramosum; radix caudexque subincrassati, ca. 1 cm. diam.; rami decumbentes, demum lignosi, 1-1.5 mm. diam., internodiis inferioribus 3-8 mm., superioribus 1.5-4 cm., longis; folia adscendentia vel patentia, supra leviter concava, dorso rotundata, lat. visa acuta vel acute acuminata, sordide glance viridia, papillis in novellissimis subnitentibus, ad 2 cm. longa, 2-3 mm. lata, ad 2 mm. diam., vagina 0.5 mm. longa; flores saepe 1-2-nati, diurni, ad 2.7 cm. diam.; pedunculi 1-3.8 cm. longi, scabri ob papillas orebras prominentes; receptaculum scabrum, 2 mm. longum, 4 mm. diam. vel in flore senectissimo subclavatum, 5 mm. longum, 6 mm. diam.; sepala 5, acuminata, 5-7 mm., vel 6-8 mm., longa, 3 inferne marginata; petala 2-3-seriata, breviora pauca, saepissime obtusa, inferne leviter angustata, roseo purpurea, obscure vittata, 0.9-1.2 cm. longa, ad 1.5 mm. lata; staminodia stamina conice conferta adpressa, apicem versus recurva, superne pallide rosea, 4 mm. longa; filamenta rosea, ad 3.5 mm. longa, intima supra medium papillata, polline dilute brunneo stramineo; glandulae distantes crenulatae; ovarium circa marginem planum, lobis di,stantibus obtusis subcompressis, saepe rubicundis, fere ad per 1 mm. elevatis; stigmata 5, subulata, in setam demum recurvata desinentia, ad 3 mm. longa; capsula 8 mm. diam., supra per 2 mm. elevata, valvis late divergentibus.
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Perennial, dwarf shrublet, up to 0.1 m high, low-growing, laxly branched. Leaves thin, separated by long internodes, slightly concave above, rounded below, acute, bladder cells rounded, dull. Flowers solitary to 2-nate, deep pink. Flowering time spring to late summer. Capsules pale brown, 5-locular, closing bodies absent, covering membranes reduced to a narrow ledge, valve wings twice as broad as expanding keels.
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