Small mat-forming herb, with rhizomes rooting at the nodes. Leaves up to 2 cm long and 1 cm broad, crowded, orbicular-spathulate, obtuse or rounded, narrowed abruptly into the petiole-like base which is about 1 cm long, fleshy. Inflorescence a 1-3-5-flowered, almost sessile, terminal cyme; bracts foliaceous but much smaller and narrower than the leaves. Calyx of 5 segments each 5-6.5 mm long, 1.7-2.5 mm broad, lanceolate to rhomboid-obovate, acute, the sides hyaline, joined for 0.75-1 mm, keeled or rarely very narrowly winged. Corolla yellow; tube 5-9 mm long; lobes 5-9.5 mm long, 3-5 mm broad, obovate to suborbicular-oblong, rounded, clawed. Filaments 0.25-1 mm long, inserted 0.25-1 mm below the corolla-sinuses; anthers 1.25-1.75 mm long, each with a shortly stipitate, very dark, oblong, apical gland 0.75-1 mm long, and 2 very small stipitate basal glands. Style and stigma 4.5-6.5 mm long with a small stigmatic swelling below the middle or near the base; stigma very small, capitate, 2-lobed.
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