Plants cespitose. Shoots many branched, elongate, to 6 cm. Flowering stem short, 0.2-3.5 cm, glandular pilose. Shoot leaves densely imbricate, sometimes subopposite, suberect or subrecurved, narrowly obovate to obovate-oblong, 4-6 × 1.5-2 mm, leathery, both surfaces glabrous, chalk glands 5-7, margin cartilaginous denticulate-ciliate proximally, apex obtuse or subacute. Cauline leaves absent or 1-7, remote, similar to shoot leaves, abaxially and marginally glandular pilose. Flower solitary; pedicel short or nearly absent; hypanthium usually black glandular hairy. Sepals ovate to broadly so, 2.5-4 × 2-2.7 mm, glandular pilose abaxially and marginally, chalk gland 1, veins 3-5, partly to fully confluent at apex, apex acute, glabrous. Petals yellow, obovate, 5-10 × 3.5-6.5 mm, ca. 8-veined, base gradually narrowed into a short claw, apex obtuse. Stamens 3-8 mm. Carpels connate proximally; ovary subsuperior, ca. 3.5 mm; styles erect, ca. 2 mm. Fl. Jul-Aug.
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