Glottiphyllum grandiflorum (Haw.) N.E.Br.

Compact plants with decumbent leaves, more than 4 to a branch in dense, distichous arrangement, leaves strap-shaped with rounded tips, leaves of seedlings decussate, spreading and acute; bladder cells reduced, in strictly horizontal arrangement along the margins; capsules forming tumble fruits, top and rims very high (3-4 mm), locules mostly 9, valves with awns; seeds laterally compressed, testa cells low and elongate, very few short rodlets, length above 1.60 mm, width above 1.15 mm.