Stem 0.6-8.5 mm, glandular hairy, glands clavate. Stolons arising from axils of basal leaves, 3-12 cm, sparsely glandular pilose, apex usually gemmiferous. Basal leaves aggregated into a rosette, narrowly elliptic or narrowly obovate to subspatulate, 4.5-9 × 1.6-3 mm, subcarnose, both surfaces glabrous, margin eglandular or glandular ciliate (glands clavate), apex mucronate. Cauline leaves remote, oblong or lanceolate to oblanceolate-linear, 5-10 × 1.0-2.5 mm, subcarnose, both surfaces glabrous or abaxially glandular hairy, margin glandular ciliate, apex mucronate. Flower solitary, or cyme corymbose, 2-10-flowered, 0.8-2.5 cm; branches 1.8-2.3 cm, 2-or 3-flowered; pedicels 2-6 mm, glandular hairy. Sepals erect, broadly to narrowly ovate, 1.8-3.8 × 1-2 mm, carnose, abaxially and marginally glandular hairy, glands clavate, veins 3-6, confluent or not at apex, apex obtuse or acute. Petals red, pink, or yellow, elliptic, or ovate to broadly so or broadly obovate, 1.2-2.6 × 1-2 mm, leathery, 2-callose, 3-veined, base abruptly narrowed into a claw 0.2-0.8 mm, apex usually obtuse, rarely acute. Male flowers: stamens 1.6-2 mm; pistil degenerate. Female flowers: stamens degenerate, 0.6-1 mm; ovary semi-inferior, 3-3.5 mm, with an annular nectary disc; styles ca. 1 mm. Fl. and fr. Jun-Sep.
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