Herbs perennial, 5-15 cm tall, eglandular, with a woody base, pilose, with simple, subappressed trichomes rarely to 1 mm. Stems erect or subdecumbent, branched basally and above, rarely simple, sparsely to densely pilose. Middle cauline leaves sessile, linear, 0.4-3.5 cm × 0.5-1.5(-2.5) mm, base attenuate, margin entire, ciliate with subappressed trichomes, apex obtuse or subacute. Fruiting pedicels divaricate, straight, slender, 4-8 mm, glabrous or sparsely pilose. Sepals oblong, 2.5-3.5 × 1-1.5 mm, often sparsely pilose. Petals lilac or white, obovate, 6-8.5 × 2.5-4 mm, apex rounded; claw 2.5-3.5 mm. Filaments of median stamens 3-3.5 mm, united; filaments of lateral stamens 2-2.5 mm; anthers oblong, 0.6-0.9 mm, apiculate. Ovules 20-30 per ovary. Fruit 1-2.5 cm × 0.9-1.1 mm, glabrous or sparsely puberulent, straight, divaricate, somewhat torulose, slightly flattened, midvein prominent; style to 1 mm; stigma slightly lobed. Seeds to 1.4 × 0.9 mm, not margined or winged; cotyledons incumbent. Fl. and fr. Jun-Sep.
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