Plants tufted or sometimes in compact cushion, green, not glaucous, woody or not at base. Stems erect, (1-)3-20(-25) cm, stipitate-glandular or glabrous proximally. Leaves: basal leaves abundant, persistent; cauline leaves in (1-)4+ pairs, reduced distally or not; basal blades erect or closely ascending to somewhat spreading, green to gray-green, filiform to needlelike or narrowly subulate, 0.3-3(-4) cm × 0.3-1.2 mm, flexuous or rigid, herbaceous, apex apiculate or stiff and spinose, glabrous to stipitate-glandular, not glaucous. Inflorescences (1-)3-13-flowered, ± open cymes. Pedicels 2-15 mm, glabrous to densely stipitate-glandular. Flowers: sepals 1-3-veined, lateral veins less developed, ovate or lanceolate, (2.5-)2.8-5(-6) mm, not expanding in fruit, margins broad, apex obtuse to broadly acute or acuminate, glabrous or stipitate-glandular on herbaceous portion; petals white or rarely pink, oblong to spatulate, (3-)4-7 mm, ca. 1.2-1.3 times as long as sepals, apex entire, erose, or 2-fid almost to base; nectaries as abaxial, rounded lobe with transverse groove or elongate cup at base of filaments opposite sepals, 0.6 × 0.3 mm. Capsules 4.5-7 mm, glabrous. Seeds black to brown, spheric or oblong to ovoid, 1.2-2.1 mm, low-tuberculate, sometimes papillate on abaxial ridge.
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