Shrubs forming relatively low mounds or mats, 5–20 cm. Stems: branchlets usually ascending, sometimes divaricate, green to yellowish green during 1st year, soon turning yellowish brown, slender, 0.5–1 mm diam.; bark of older branches dark brown to black; tips not or weakly spinescent; glabrous or sparsely to ± densely puberulent. Leaves: stipules absent; ?petiole base ± persistent, not or only slightly thickened, not darkened or glandular?; blade oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 6–10 × 3–5 mm, margins thickened, apex acute or short-acuminate, mucronate, mucro 0.6–1.2 mm, glabrous or scabridulous. Inflorescences terminal, usually flowers solitary. Flowers: sepals 5, ovate, 2–3 mm, slightly unequal, tips spinescent; petals 5, narrowly to broadly oblanceolate, 6–8 × 1.5–2.2 mm; stamens 10, in 2 unequal series, ?longer opposite sepals?. Follicles 1(–3), ovoid to broadly ellipsoid, 2.5–4 mm, moderately striate, usually sparsely puberulent, sometimes glabrous.
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