Herbs perennial, cespitose, 2.5-13.5 cm tall. Shoots branched, with leaf rosettes. Flowering stem leafy, proximally glabrous, distally brown glandular pilose. Rosette leaves spatulate to narrowly subobovate, 4.5-8 × ca. 1.5 mm, subcarnose, both surfaces usually glabrous, margin setose-ciliate or glabrous, apex mucronate. Cauline leaves remote, oblong or lanceolate to ensiform, 4.4-15 × 1-2.3 mm, carnose, both surfaces usually glabrous, rarely sparsely glandular hairy abaxially, margin glandular or eglandular ciliate, apex mucronate. Flower solitary, or cyme corymbose, 2-8-flowered, 2-6 cm; pedicels slender, 0.3-3 cm, brown glandular hairy. Sepals erect, then spreading to reflexed, ovate to narrowly so, 1.5-3 × 1-2.1 mm, carnose, abaxially brown glandular hairy, adaxially glabrous, veins 3-5, not, partly, or fully confluent at apex, margin glabrous or ± glandular ciliate, apex obtuse or acute. Petals yellow, proximally orange spotted, narrowly ovate, subelliptic, or oblong to lanceolate, 4.5-7.5 × 1.5-2.9 mm, 1-or 2-callose near base, sometimes obscurely so, or not callose, 3-7-veined, base with a claw 0.1-1 mm, apex subobtuse or acute. Stamens 2.8-4.3 mm. Ovary subsuperior, broadly ovoid, 2.3-3.8 mm; styles 0.5-2 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep.
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