Subshrubs, glabrous. Stems erect, pendulous, or prostrate, much-branched, not bearing basal rosettes. Leaves alternate, spreading, sessile; blade green tinged with red, not glaucous, elliptic-oblanceolate, laminar, 40-80 × 13-25 mm, base not spurred, not scarious, apex rounded. Flowering shoots (axillary), ascending, usually simple, sometimes branched, 10-50 cm; leaf blades elliptic-oblanceolate, base not spurred; offsets not formed. Inflorescences elongated paniculate cymes, 50-300+-flowered, 3-25-branched; branches not recurved, forked; bracts similar to leaves, smaller. Pedicels absent or to 1 mm. Flowers (4-)5(-6)-merous; sepals erect, usually distinct, green, ovate, lanceolate, or elliptic-oblong, unequal, 1.5-9.6 × 1-3.2 mm, apex obtuse; petals widely spreading, distinct or slightly connate basally, yellow, lanceolate, carinate, ca. 7.5 mm, apex acute or obtuse, mucronate; filaments yellow; anthers yellow; nectar scales yellowish or translucent, subquadrate or reniform. Carpels widely divergent in fruit, distinct, brown. 2n = 68.
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Glabrous, much-branched subshrub with widespreading or sprawling, often twisted or curved, stems to c. 50 cm long and 1 cm diam. Lvs alternate, sessile, mainly aggregated and often imbricate towards shoot apices but not in terminal rosettes, mostly 2.5-6 × 1-2 cm and 3-5 mm thick, oblanceolate, obovate, narrowly ellipsoid-obovoid, or ellipsoid-spathulate, convex or flattened above and below, shining green; margins entire, often reddish, especially towards the obtuse, subacute or rounded apex. Infl. a terminal ± pyramidal panicle with a number of long, erect to spreading branches, usually 6-15 cm high and 5-c. 14 cm across, with lower bracts leaflike. Fls rather numerous, subsessile or with pedicels to 2 mm long, secund. Sepals equal, 2-3 mm long, triangular-ovate. Petals 5, patent, 6.5-8.5 × c. 2 mm, narrowly triangular, yellow, acute. Stamens 3-5 mm long, yellow. Carpels and styles yellow or greenish yellow. Scales ± rectangular, wider than long. Follicles yellowish, ± parallel. Mature seed not seen.
Open or wooded mountain sides, in moist or rather dry situations; at elevations from 2,300-3,000 metres.
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