Creeping, much branched herbs growing solitary or in dense mats. Stems up to 35 cm long, appressed strigose. Leaves usually seemingly distichous due to twisted petioles, petioles 1-3 mm long, blade elliptic, obovate, oblong or elliptic-to obovate-ob-long, 0.8-2 by 0.3-1 cm, tapering towards base, tips rounded or obtuse, apiculate, lateral nerves 3 or 4 on each side of midrib, sparsely appressed antrorse strigose along margins and on midrib below. Flowers solitary, extra-axillary; pedicels appressed antrorse strigose, 8-15 mm long. Calyx 3-5 mm long, divided to near base into ovate or oblong-ovate, 2-2.5 mm wide, acute lobes, antrorse strigose along margins and midribs. Corolla white, purplish, pink or pale purple blue, 7-9 mm diam., tube 3-4 mm long, lobes 5 or 6, glabrous, orbicular-ovate, rounded, 4-5 by 3.5-4.5 mm; fornices kidney-shaped, c. 0.5 mm wide, finely hairy. Stamens 1-1.5 mm long, anthers oblong-ovoid, 1 mm long. Pistil: style 1-1.5 mm long. Nutlets 7-10, obliquely ovoid, 1-1.5 mm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, acute, dorsally convex, with sharp crest, light grey, shiny, smooth.
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