Caudex few branched, erect, 3-5 × 0.5-1.2 cm; persistent old flowering stems present or absent. Caudex leaves scalelike, triangular to triangular-suborbicular, apex acute to acuminate. Flowering stems few to numerous, simple, erect, 2-9 cm. Stem leaves alternate, sessile or shortly petiolate; leaf blade broadly oblong-lanceolate, obovate-lanceolate, oblong-ovate, or subovate, (5-)6-12 × 2.5-4 mm, base connate, margin entire but sometimes undulate, apex rounded, obtuse, or acuminate. Inflorescences subumbellate or corymbiform. Flowers bisexual or unisexual, 5-merous, or 4-merous in male plants. Sepals linear, lanceolate, or broadly oblong, 1.5-6.5 mm, base ca. 1 mm wide and connate for ca. 1 mm, apex obtuse. Petals suberect, yellow or purple at base and yellow toward apex, oblong-linear, oblong, oblong-lanceolate, or obovate, 2.5-4.5 × 1-0.6-2.5 mm, apex obtuse and mucronate. Stamens 8 or 10, subequaling petals; antepetalous ones inserted ca. 0.5 mm from petal base. Nectar scales subelliptic to obliquely quadrangular, apex ± emarginate. Carpels suberect or erect, 2.5-4 mm. Seeds subovoid-oblong, smooth, winged at both ends. Fl. and fr. Aug.
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