Herbs perennial, densely cespitose, 2-13.5 cm tall. Stem brown crisped glandular villous, hairs denser at leaf axils. Basal leaves caducous; petiole 2-7 mm, brown glandular villous; leaf blade elliptic to oblong, 4-6 × 1.9-2.3 mm, adaxially ± glandular hairy, apex acute. Proximal cauline leaves with petiole 1.2-3.6 mm, glandular villous at margin; leaf blade elliptic to oblong, 5-6.5 × 1.9-2.1 mm, adaxially ± glandular hairy; distal leaves subsessile to sessile, oblong to narrowly ovate, 7-12 × 2-4 mm, adaxially and marginally subglandular hairy, sometimes glabrous on both surfaces. Flower solitary or cyme 2-or 3-flowered; pedicels 2.2-17 mm, glandular hairy. Sepals erect, then spreading to reflexed, subovate to elliptic, 3-4 × 1.5-2.1 mm, ± glandular hairy abaxially and at margin near apex, glandular hairy adaxially distally, veins 3-5, not confluent at apex, apex obtuse, sometimes erose. Petals yellow, elliptic, rarely ovate-elliptic, 4.2-6.1 × 2.4-3.5 mm, 2-callose near base, 3-5(or 6)-veined, base with a claw 0.3-1 mm, apex retuse or obtuse. Stamens 3-4.1 mm. Ovary subsuperior, ovoid, 2.5-3.7 mm; styles 2-2.5 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep.
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