Perennials; caudex (buried), branched, (forming hard mats); densely pubescent, trichomes several-rayed, rays furcate or bifurcate, (tuberculate). Stems several from base, erect, (unbranched), 0.2-0.3 dm. Basal leaves (few), similar to cauline. Cauline leaves: (petiole not differentiated from blade); blade (somewhat succulent), linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 5-12 mm, margins entire. Racemes dense, (few-flowered). Fruiting pedicels (ascending to divaricate-ascending, ± straight), 3.5-6 mm. Flowers: sepals (yellowish), elliptic, 3-4.5 mm; petals (erect or, more commonly, arching), spatulate to oblanceolate, 5.8-7 mm, (claw not or weakly differentiated from blade). Fruits (coppery or reddish brown in age), broadly ovoid, slightly inflated, 3-4 mm; valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous throughout; replum as wide as or wider than fruit; ovules 4-8 per ovary; style 1.8-3 mm. Seeds flattened.
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