Plants 10-20 cm tall. Shoots numerous, with dense rosette leaves. Flowering stem slender, glandular pubescent or glabrous. Rosette leaves linear-lanceolate, 7.5-9 × 1.4-1.6 mm, leathery, glabrous except margin cartilaginous ciliate and apex cartilaginous aristate. Cauline leaves linear, 5.2-6 × 0.8-1 mm, leathery, margin cartilaginous ciliate, apex cartilaginous aristate. Cyme 3-5-flowered; branches slender, glandular pilose, sometimes with buds in bract axils. Sepals spreading, ovate, ca. 1.8 × 1.2 mm, subcarnose, abaxially and marginally glandular pilose, veins 3 or 4, free, apex acute. Petals yellowish white, crimson spotted, oblong-elliptic, 5-6 × 2-2.5 mm, not callose, 3-veined, base ± truncate, clawless, apex acute. Stamens ca. 5 mm. Ovary subsuperior, ovoid, 2-3 mm; styles ca. 1.5 mm. Fl. and fr. Jun-Aug. 2n = 26, 28, 38, ca. 44, 48, 66, ca. 80, 92, 112, 150.
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Plants mat-forming, (stems trailing), not stoloniferous, rhizomatous. Leaves basal and cauline, (marcescent, crowded); petiole absent; blade (sometimes reddish), linear or linear-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, unlobed, 3-15 mm, leathery, margins entire, stiffly, often hooked, white-ciliate, sometimes also glandular-ciliate, apex acute, white spinulose-mucronate (spine 1-1.5 mm), surfaces glabrous, sometimes adaxially sparsely sessile-glandular. Inflorescences 2-15-flowered cymes or thyrses, sometimes solitary flowers, 5-20 cm, sparsely short stipitate-glandular; bracts sessile. Flowers: sepals ± erect, (purplish), ovate to triangular, margins eciliate or sparsely glandular, surfaces glabrous or sparsely sessile-glandular; petals yellowish white, purple-or red-to yellow-spotted, oblong to elliptic, 3-7 mm, longer than sepals; ovary superior.
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