Shrubs, densely cespitose, pulvinate, mat-forming, 0.3–1 dm; caudices woody. Stems 1–20+, semierect to prostrate and decumbent with very short internodes, ?densely, intricately branched, leafy?; bark brown to gray or dark gray in age; short shoots usually present, long shoots rarely present; glabrous. Leaves persistent, cauline, alternate, tightly crowded and imbricate, simple; petiole absent; blade oblanceolate to spatulate-obovate, 0.2–0.4 cm, coriaceous, margins flat, entire, venation not visible, surfaces sericeous. Inflorescences terminal or pseudoterminal, flowers solitary, hirsute to villous; bracts absent; bracteoles absent. Pedicels absent. Flowers 3–6(–8) mm diam.; epicalyx bractlets 0; hypanthium hemispheric, 1–2 mm, sericeous; sepals 5, erect to slightly reflexed, oblanceolate; petals 5, pink to pinkish, often purple tinged, elliptic to oblong; stamens 7–12, slightly longer than petals; torus annular to weakly developed and inconspicuous; carpels 3 or 4(or 5), free, glabrous or glabrate, sparsely villous on adaxial margin, styles terminal, ?adherent to hypanthium?; ovules 3–5. Fruits aggregated follicles, 3–5, ellipsoid, 2–3 mm, glabrate or sparsely hirsute, sparsely villous on adaxial margin; hypanthium persistent; sepals persistent, erect to slightly reflexed; styles deciduous. Seeds 1 or 2(–4), elongate, fusiform. x = 9.
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