Plants with woody caudex; moderately to densely pubescent. Stems (0.5-)1-4 dm, woody proximally, densely to moderately pubescent. Cauline leaves sessile or nearly so; blade linear to linear-oblanceolate, 1.5-7 cm × 1-4.5 mm, (fleshy), base attenuate, margins usually entire, rarely dentate, apex acute to obtuse. Racemes to 3.5 dm in fruit. Fruiting pedicels 0.6-1.4 cm, densely pubescent. Flowers: sepals broadly lanceolate to ovate, 4.8-7.5 × 1-2 mm; petals obovate to spatulate, 8-12(-13) × 5-8.5 mm, (often flattened), claw to 2 mm, (margin dentate); filaments 4-6 mm; anthers 2.5-3.5 mm. Fruits terete to slightly angustiseptate, 0.9-3 cm × 1-2.2 mm; ovules 30-80 per ovary; style 0.9-4 mm. Seeds 0.5-0.7 × 0.4-0.5 mm. 2n = 18, 19, 20, 34, 36.
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