Caudices (in age decumbent or pendent), branching apically, (cespitose), 10-60 × 1-3 cm, axillary branches absent. Leaves: rosettes (1-)3-5, not in clumps, 15-30-leaved, 4-10 cm diam.; blade gray-green, becoming reddish, ovate-oblong, 2.5-6 × 1-2.5 cm, 3-6 mm thick, base 1-2.5 cm wide, apex acute, surfaces sometimes farinose, not glaucous. Inflorescences: cyme 3-5-branched, compact, flat-topped; branches not twisted (flowers on topside), simple or bifurcate, (1-4 cm wide); cincinni 3-5, 3-11-flowered, circinate, 1-3.5 cm; floral shoots 10-35 × 0.3-1 cm; leaves 20-35, spreading, cordate-ovate, 10-25 × 10-20 mm, apex acute. Pedicels erect, not bent in fruit, mostly 1-3 mm. Flowers: calyx 5-8 × 5-6 mm; corolla loosely tubular, not tightly 5-gonal, free margins of each petal usually not connivent to adjacent petals; petals connate 1-2 mm, pale yellow, 10-14 × 3-4 mm, apex acute to obtuse, tips often outcurved; pistils connivent, erect. Unripe follicles erect. 2n = 34.
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