Caudices often branching apically, 3-5 × 0.1-0.7 cm, (from root ca. 3 mm thick but strongly constricted irregularly), axillary branches absent. Leaves withering in early summer; rosettes 1-3, (in clumps), 5-10-leaved, 1-3 cm diam.; blade green, becoming purplish, linear to oblanceolate, 1.5-5 × 0.3-0.7 cm, 1.5-2 mm thick, base 0.5-1.1 cm wide, apex acute, subapiculate, surfaces not farinose, slightly glaucous. Inflorescences: cymes 2-3-branched, obpyramidal; branches not twisted (flowers on topside), simple or 1 times bifurcate, (3-5 cm wide); cincinni mostly 1-2, (simple), 5-12-flowered, not circinate, 3-8 cm; floral shoots 5-18 × 0.1-0.2 cm; leaves 10-20, ascending, triangular-ovate, 5-15 × 3-6 mm, apex acute. Pedicels erect, not bent in fruit, (stout), 1-3 mm. Flowers: calyx 3-5 × 3-5 mm; petals connate 1-2 mm, pale yellow, sometimes red-lineolate, 8-12 × 2-3.5 mm, apex broadly acute, tips slightly outcurved; pistils connivent, erect. Unripe follicles erect. 2n = 34.
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