Herbs, perennial, tufted, glabrous. Stems prostrate, becoming erect, branched, bearing rosettes in clusters and secondary shoots in leaf axils. Leaves alternate, (easily detaching and sometimes forming new plants), divergent, slightly upturned, sessile; blade blue-green, purplish, or green, sometimes glaucous, ovate, elliptic-ovate, or lanceolate, subterete, 3.2-6.2 × 1.9-2.9 mm, base not spurred, not scarious, apex obtuse or apparently acute. Flowering shoots erect, simple or branched, ca. 18 cm; leaf blades elliptic to suborbiculate or elliptic-linear, base not spurred; offsets not formed. Inflorescences cymes, 3-22-flowered, 3-branched; branches not or slightly recurved, not forked; bracts narrowly elliptic to linear. Pedicels absent or 3-5 mm. Flowers 5-merous; sepals erect, slightly connate basally, green, lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong, equal, ca. 3 × 1.5 mm, apex obtuse or subacute; petals widely spreading from short, erect base, distinct, deep yellow, elliptic-lanceolate or lanceolate, slightly cucullate, 6.7-8.8 mm, apex obtuse or, rarely, acute with minute mucronate appendage; filaments yellow; anthers yellow; nectar scales yellow, subquadrate. Carpels erect in fruit, connate basally, brown. 2n = 32, 36.
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