Erect or decumbent succulent herbs; stems to 15 cm tall, 2-3 mm in diam., the internodes 2-4 cm long, green or occasionally reddish, puberulent; branches occasional. Leaves somewhat thickened, lanceolate to elliptic, 3.0-7.5 cm long, 1.6-4.2 cm wide, the apex acute, the base oblique, acute, dentate to serrate, the upper surface dark green, sparsely strigose, the hairs appearing to be in rows be-tween the major lateral veins, the lower surface light green, puberulent with trans-parent hairs; petioles ca. 1 cm long, green, puberulent. Inflorescences terminat-ing the branches or rarely the main axis, racemose, the peduncles short, usually much less than 1 cm long, green or reddish, puberulent; bracts leaflike and often clasping the pedicels, ca. 5 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, green, the pedicels ca. 3 times as long as the peduncle or more, slender but expanding gradually toward the floral tube, 1-2 cm long. Flowers several per inflorescence; floral tube nar-rowly funnelform, elongated below the calyx lobes, to 5 mm long, 2 mm wide be-low the lobes, green, the veins prominent, puberulent; calyx lobes oblong, 5-7 mm long, ca. 2 mm wide, obtuse, green, sparsely strigose outside, the inside gla-brous; corolla tube yellow with a cream colored limb, the tube 1.0-1.5 cm long, glabrous below, sparsely strigose above outside; ovary reddish, pilose toward the apex, style sparsely pilose. Capsule ovoid; seeds ellipsoid, dark reddish brown, striate.
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