Herbs, biennial, rarely annual or perennial, multi-stemmed from base, hirtellous and glandular-hairy. Stems erect, much-branched, bearing basal rosettes. Leaves alternate, ascending, sessile; blade pea green, not glaucous, elliptic-oblong to linear, semiterete with flattened adaxial face, 3-8 × 1.4-1.9 mm, base short-spurred, not scarious, apex obtuse. Flowering shoots erect, simple or branched from base, 2-10 cm; leaf blades elliptic-oblong to linear, base short-spurred; offsets not formed. Inflorescences dense to congested corymbs, 3-10-flowered, 2-3-branched; branches not recurved, not forked; bracts similar to leaves, smaller. Pedicels 3-8 mm. Flowers 5-merous; sepals erect, distinct, green speckled with red or dark purple, lanceolate or ovate-elliptic, equal, 2-4 × 1-1.5 mm, apex obtuse, (glandular-hairy); petals stellately spreading, distinct, pink-red with darker midvein area abaxially, elliptic-ovate, not carinate basally, 3-4.5 mm, apex acute, (rarely glandular-hairy); filaments white; anthers red; nectar scales red, reniform or subquadrate. Carpels erect in fruit, distinct, bright yellowish green turning dark wine-red. 2n = 30.
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