Caudices simple apically, to 10 × 1.5-3 cm, axillary branches to 5 cm × 3-8 mm. Leaves: rosettes solitary, 15-30-leaved, (flattish), 5-12 cm diam.; blade bright green, often maroon-tinged abaxially and towards apex, oblong-obovate, 3-7 × 1.5-3 cm, 3-4 mm thick, base 1-2 cm wide, apex short-acuminate, surfaces not farinose, not glaucous. Inflorescences: cyme (ascending), simple or 1-2-branched, flat-topped; branches not twisted (flowers on topside), simple or 1 times bifurcate; cincinni 2-3, 3-9-flowered, circinate, 1-6 cm; floral shoots 2-25 × 0.2-0.4 cm; leaves 15-25, spreading, blade cordate-ovate, 8-13 × 5-7 mm, apex acute. Pedicels erect, not bent in fruit, 5-8 mm. Flowers: calyx 3-4 × 5.5-7 mm; petals connate 1-2 mm, bright yellow, 10-11 × 3-3.5 mm, apex acute, sometimes tips outcurved; pistils not connivent, suberect, (broadened distal to base). Unripe follicles ascending. 2n = 34.
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