Plants many branched, 3.5-6 cm tall, with crowded shoots forming cushions. Flowering stem 1.5-3.4 cm, densely dark brown glandular hairy. Shoot leaves aggregated into a rosette, subspatulate to suboblong, 3.3-5 × 1.1-2 mm, leathery, both surfaces glabrous, chalk glands 3-7, margin cartilaginous ciliate proximally, apex rather recurved, obtuse. Cauline leaves 4-6, linear to subspatulate, abaxially convex, adaxially subconcave, 4.5-5 × 0.9-2 mm, leathery, abaxially glandular hairy, adaxially glabrous, chalk glands 3-5, margin glandular hairy, apex obtuse, glabrous. Cyme corymbose, 3-or 4-flowered; pedicels glandular hairy. Sepals erect, subovate, 2-2.8 × 1.2-2 mm, leathery, abaxially and marginally dark brown glandular hairy, chalk glands 1-3, veins 3, confluent or not at apex, apex obtuse. Petals pink or purple, spatulate to narrowly obovate, 3-5.1 × 1.3-3 mm, 3-5-veined, base usually gradually narrowed into a claw, apex obtuse. Stamens ca. 5 mm. Ovary semi-inferior, broadly ovoid, 2-3 mm; styles 1-2.8 mm. Fl. May-Aug.
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