Glabrous shrublet 3-55 cm tall with a taproot, usually bushy with the branches erect, strict or the lower ones ascending, rarely decumbent and matforming, not rooting at the base; stems 4-lined at first, eventually terete, sparsely gland dotted with the internodes shorter than the leaves. Leaves sessile, erect or suberect, usually imbricate, coriaceous, subconcolorous; lamina (3-)8-14(-18) mm long, 0.8-3.5 (-5.0) mm wide, linear, elliptic-oblong, lanceolate or rarely ovate-lanceolate, the apex acute, the margin entire, revolute, the base parallel to nar-rowly cuneate, the lateral vein pairs 0-3, without reticulate venation, the laminar glands pellucid, punctiform, dense', large, more prominent beneath, the marginal glands absent, the upper epidermal cells bullate. Inflorescences 1-25-flowered, monochasial after the first or second grade, with foliate and bracteate' branches mixed, or wholly foliate, without subsidiary inflorescence branches; pedicels 4-10 mm long in fruit; bracts and bracteoles mostly foliaceous when present. Flowers 0.6-1.0 cm (or larger?) in diameter; sepals 4-8 mm long, 1.0-2.3 mm wide, unequal, oblanceolate-spatulate, oblong, elliptic to linear, acute, 5-nerved, the nerves prominent; petals bright yellow to orange, 5.0-8.5 mm long, 3-6 mm wido, slightly exceeding the sepals, obovate to oblong; stamens 20-40, not fascicled, the longest 3.5-6.0 mm long, 3/4 times as long as the petals, the anther gland amber; ovary 1.5-1.8 mm long, 0.6-1.0 mm wide, narrowly ovoid-ellipsoid, the styles 3, 2-3(-4) mm long, 1.3-1.5 times as long as the ovary, the stigmas broadly capitate, the' placentas 3, parietal with numerous ovules. Fruits 3.5-5.0 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, narrowly ovoid to cylindric, trigonous, acute to subacuminate, shorter than the sepals; seeds ca. 0.6 mm long, cylindric, longitudinally ribbed with transverse striae.
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