Plants ± cespitose, bluish green, not glaucous, with woody base. Stems erect, (2-)10-30(-40) cm, stipitate-glandular. Leaves: basal leaves persistent; cauline leaves in (4-)5+ pairs, reduced or not; basal blades ascending or recurved, filiform, 1-10(-11) cm × 0.2-0.4 mm, flexuous, herbaceous, apex apiculate to spinose, glabrous to puberulent, not glaucous. Inflorescences (1-)3-35-flowered, ± open cymes. Pedicels 3-25 mm, stipitate-glandular. Flowers: sepals weakly to prominently 1-3-veined, linear-lanceolate, 4-7.5 mm, not enlarging in fruit, margins broad, apex acuminate, moderately to densely stipitate-glandular on herbaceous portion; petals white, oblong-elliptic to spatulate, 4-8 mm, 0.9-1.3 times as long as sepals, apex entire to somewhat erose; nectaries as lateral and abaxial rounding of base of filaments opposite sepals, 0.2 × 0.4 mm. Capsules 5-7 mm, glabrous. Seeds black, ovoid to pyriform with hilar notch, 1.5-1.9 mm, tuberculate; tubercles rounded, elongate to rounded-conic. 2n = 44.
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