Herbs 3-12 cm tall, sparsely pilose, with trichomes 0.2-0.5 mm; caudex covered with petioles of previous years. Petioles of basal leaves often purplish, (0.7-)1-5(-8) cm, thickened and subcorky, persistent, shortly ciliate; leaf blade oblanceolate, broadly spatulate, oblong, or lanceolate, (1-)1.5-5(-6.5) × (0.7-)1-1.6(-2.3) cm, somewhat fleshy and drying subleathery, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, base attenuate or cuneate, apex obtuse or rounded. Cauline leaves absent. Flowers solitary. Fruiting pedicels erect or ascending, (0.5-)1-3(-5) cm. Flowers not seen. Ovules 20-32 per ovary. Fruit lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, (3.5-)5-8.5(-11) × (0.7-)0.9-1.4(-1.8) cm; valves glabrous or sparsely pilose, with a prominent midvein and obscure lateral ones; septum complete; style obsolete or to 2 mm; stigma entire or slightly lobed. Seeds biseriate, broadly ovate, reticulate, 3-4.5 × 2-3 mm. Fr. Jul-Sep.
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