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A small succulent plant without a stem. It keeps growing from year to year. It has 1-4 pairs of leaves on each branch. The leaves are opposite, oval, stout and fleshy. They are flat on the top surface and rounded at the back. The flowers occur singly and are 7 cm across. They have short stalks and are pink to yellow. They come from between the leaves and there are 2-4 flowers on a plant. The fruit is a 9-15 chambered capsule. The seeds are oval and flattened. They have small lumps and are dark brown.
Perennial, caespitose, dwarf shrublet, up to 0.05 m high. Leaves highly succulent, semiglobose, appressed, flat above, rounded below, surface speckled. Flowers solitary, yellow to orange with paler centre. Flowering time May-July. Capsules dark brown, woody, 10-locular, closing bodies large, brown, covering membranes complete, valve wings broad, tapering to apex.
