Herbs perennial, cespitose, 1-1.5 cm tall. Shoots extremely crowded, forming cushions. Flowering stem hidden among rosette leaves, ca. 9 mm, yellow glandular hairy. Leaves imbricate, aggregated, subelliptic to suboblong, 3.5-4 × 1.5-2 mm, carnose, yellow glandular hairy, apex obtuse. Flower solitary, sessile; bracts tightly appressed to sepals. Sepals erect, subovate, ca. 3 × 2 mm, subcarnose, yellow glandular hairy, veins 8 or 9, confluent at apex, apex obtuse. Petals yellow, obovate to elliptic, ca. 5 × 3-3.2 mm, 2-callose, 6-or 7-veined, base contracted into a claw ca. 0.4 mm, apex obtuse. Stamens ca. 3.5 mm. Ovary subsuperior, ovoid, ca. 2.5 mm; styles ca. 1 mm. Fl. Jul-Aug.