Herbs with thick, unbranched caudex 3-6 mm in diam. Petiole 1.5-4.5 cm, glabrous; leaf blade spatulate or oblanceolate, 1-2.5 cm × 2-10 mm, not fleshy, sparsely pilose adaxially with simple trichomes, glabrous abaxially, base cuneate or subattenuate, margin entire or obscurely 1-or 2-toothed on each side, sparsely ciliate with trichomes to 1 mm, apex obtuse or subrounded. Fruiting pedicels slender, sparsely to densely pubescent with spreading trichomes along distal half, strongly recurved to the ground, to 7 cm. Sepals broadly ovate, 2.5-3 × 1.5-1.8 mm, sparsely pubescent with trichomes 0.1-0.3 mm, not ciliate. Petals white, broadly obovate, 4-5 × 2.5-3 mm, tapering to clawlike base ca. 2 mm. Filaments 2-2.5 mm; anthers ovate, 0.5-0.6 mm. Fruit angustiseptate, geocarpic, dehiscent, suborbicular or broadly oblong, 4-7 × 4-5 mm, rounded at base and apex; valves carinate, extending along full fruit length, minutely papillate at apex; gynophore absent; style 1.5-2 mm. Seeds brown, up to 10, broadly ovate or suborbicular, compressed, 1.6-1.9 × ca. 1.2 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul.
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