Plants densely cespitose, green, not glaucous, with woody base. Stems erect, 7-18 cm, glabrous. Leaves: basal leaves persistent; cauline leaves in 5 pairs, not reduced (stems leafy); basal blades spreading, needlelike, 1.5-2 cm × 0.5-1 mm, rigid, not fleshy, apex spinose, glabrous, glaucous. Inflorescences 5-13-flowered, open cymes. Pedicels 4-12 mm, glabrous to stipitate-glandular distally. Flowers: sepals 1-veined, narrowly to broadly lanceolate, 4.5-5 mm, 6.5-7.5 mm in fruit, margins narrow, apex acuminate to spinose, glabrous to stipitate-glandular distally; petals yellowish white, narrowly spatulate, 7.5-8.5 mm, 1.5-1.7 times as long as sepals, apex emarginate; nectaries as lateral and abaxial rounding of base of filaments opposite sepals, 0.3-0.4 mm. Capsules ca. 6 mm, glabrous. Seeds color not known, orbicular, ca. 1 mm, surface not known (mature seeds not observed).
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