Plants often purplish tinged, homophyllous, rarely subsuc-culent. Stems prostrate, 5-30 cm. Leaves: ocrea 2.5-5 mm; petiole 2-5 mm; blade purple tinged, narrowly obovate or oblanceolate, 8-30 × 4-12(-15) mm, apex rounded to obtuse; middle stem leaves 1.1-1.8(-2.2) times as long as adjacent branch leaves. Cymes 2-7(-10)-flowered. Pedicels 1-1.5 mm. Perianths (2.2-)2.5-3.3(-3.5) mm. Achenes ovate-lanceolate, (2-)3-gonous, (1.8-)2-2.5(-3.1) mm, faces often unequal, ± flat to concave, roughened, rarely obscurely tubercled.