Plants evergreen, semiwoody, (mat-forming, leaves densely marcescent along stem base), 5-15 cm; rhizomes stout, long; rosettes multiple, forming mats, in apical clusters arising off stems; vegetative parts efarinose but often glandular. Leaves not aromatic, indistinctly petiolate; petiole winged; blade without deep reticulate veins abaxially, cuneate-spatulate, 4 × 0.5-1 cm, succulent, margins crenate to dentate with 6-8 teeth, apex obtuse, surfaces glabrous. Inflorescences 2-9-flowered; involucral bracts plane at base, unequal. Pedicels erect, thin, 4-12 mm, length 2-4 times bracts, stiff. Flowers heterostylous; calyx green, urceolate, 4-8 mm; corolla rose-pink, tube 6-10 mm, length 2 times calyx, glandular, limb 10-20 mm diam., lobes 5-10 mm, apex emarginate. Capsules globose, length 0.7-0.8 times calyx. Seeds with flanged edges, reticulate. 2n = 44.
Home