Succulent, glabrous, perennial herb, up to 15 cm high. Flowering stems ascending or erect from creeping, sometimes branched base, with a short sterile shoot or simple, terete, smooth. Leaves alternate, remotely arranged, sessile, very shortly spurred (c. 0.5 mm), entire, narrowly obovate to ob-lanceolate, apex obtuse, base attenuate, 0.9-1.7 by 4-6 mm, thick-herbaceous, smooth. Inflorescences a terminal, ternate cyme, densely 30-50-flowered, sparsely bracteate. Bracts leafy. Flowers 5-merous, sessile, c. 10 mm wide at anthesis. Sepals basally for c. 0.5 mm connate, linear-lanceolate to very narrowly oblong, entire, slightly unequal in size, 2.5-3.5 by 0.5-0.7 mm, apex round, slightly broadening towards the base, base spurless, fleshy, ascending or spreading through anthesis. Petals bright yellow, basally for c. 0.5 mm connate, lanceolate, apex acute to acuminate-acute, 5-6.5 by 0.8-1 mm, spreading at anthesis. Stamens shorter than the petals, filaments 3.5-3.7 mm, the oppositi-petalous ones for c. 1 mm connate with the petals, anthers ovate, c. 0.6 mm long, reddish before dehiscence. Nectar-scales broadly oblong to square, c. 0.5 by 0.3 mm. Gynoecium 4-5 mm long, the ovaries for 0.7 mm connate, ventrally gibbose, dorsally round, c. 1 mm wide, tapering towards the apex from the middle, style c. 1.2 mm, slender, stigma not papillate. Ovules (20-) 24 (-34) in each locule. Follicles brownish, 4-5 by c. 2.5 mm, carpels widely spreading. Seeds brownish red, oblong-cylindrical, 0.7 mm long, apex round, testa very minutely puncticulate.
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