Tiny, prostrate, fleshy, glabrous herb, with short stems. Leaves distichous, conferted, semi-amplexicaulous, sessile, oblong-lanceolate, entire, 4-5 mm by 1-2 mm, blunt to obtuse, smooth and shining. Flowers 5 mm long, in the upper leaf axils. Pedicels 2-5 mm, ebracteolate. Calyx lobes linear to lanceolate, 1.5-2.5 mm by 1 mm, entire, blunt to slightly acute. Corolla 4-4.5 mm, glabrous, very light purple, inside with two gibbosities, dorsally split to the base; dorsal lobes connate with the lateral ones for 1.5-2 mm; lateral lobes connate with the ventral one for 2-2.5 mm; dorsal lobes lanceolate, 0.5-2.5 mm, reflexed, sometimes of unequal length; lateral and ventral lobes equal, lanceolate to ovate, 1.5-2.5(-3) mm by 0.75-1 mm, reflexed. Filaments 1.5-3 mm, halfway free, linear, glabrous; anthers from dorsal to ventral 1.5-1 mm, glabrous, the two anterior anthers finely haired at the apex. Ovary trumpet-shaped to cupular, 0.5-0.75 mm long. Fruit not seen.
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