Shrublet, hardly 10 cm high, with a few prostrate, slender, rooting stems or twigs 3-8 cm, densely set with subappressed redbrown setular hairs and a very short spreading pubescence, subdensely foliate. Leaves elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, shortly attenuate at both ends, subcoriaceous, with a few crenulations, each crenation ending in a long redbrown setular and subappressed, finally caducous hair, such as are found here and there on both faces of the lamina, otherwise glabrous, 6-8 by c. 2 mm, midrib slightly sunken above, hardly visible beneath, nerves not visible; petiole slender, c. 1 mm. Stipule-like perulae subulate, early caducous. Flowers solitary in a few distant axils. Pedicels glabrous, 1 mm, with 2 distal setaceous-ciliate bracteoles. Calyx broadly campanulate, 2 mm, 5-lobed halfway, lobes triangular, obtuse, long sub-setose-ciliate, glabrous otherwise. Corolla urceolate, 5-angular, rather thin, almost 7 by c. 3.5 mm, white, purplish at angles, glabrous, lobes deltoid, 1.5 mm. Filaments linear, dilated at the base, glabrous, 4.5-5 mm, a little wavy; anthers sagittate, 2 mm, cells rather narrow, echinulate; tubules as long as but narrower than the cells. Ovary glabrous; style columnar, glabrous, 4.5 mm.
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