Small, creeping herbs forming dense cushions or mats. Stems short, numerous, densely antrorse stigose. Leaves obovate, spathulate or oblong, 5-8 by 0.3-0.4 mm, base gradually tapering into the 1-3 mm long, sheath-like petiole, apex rounded, retuse or mucronulate, without lateral veins, sparsely antrorse strigose above, glabrous below except midrib and margins. Flowers solitary, extra-axillary; pedicels spreading strigose, 2-3.5 mm long in flower, up to 4.5 mm in fruit. Calyx 2.5-3.5 mm long in flower, coherent base 0.5-1 mm in flower, accrescent to 1.5-2 mm in fruit, lobes 1-1.5 mm wide, not accrescent, acutish or obtuse, apiculate, with a black gland at tip, white antrorse strigose on outside along midrib and margins. Corolla white or pink or lavender, throat yellow, glabrous, tube 1.5-2.5 mm long, lobes orbicular, 1.5 mm in diam., rounded or retuse; fornices kidney-shaped, ciliate. Stamens c. 1 mm long, anthers oblong-ovoid, c. 0.7 mm long. Pistil: style c. 0.5 mm. Nutlets pyriform, dorsally rounded, c. 1.2 mm long, black, smooth.
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