Plants perennial, tufted, rhizoma-tous, eglandular. Stems branched, 3–7 cm, subglabrous proximally, softly pubescent distally, proximal internodes congested; small axillary tufts of leaves absent. Leaves proximal leaves marcescent, pseudopetiolate, spatulate, distal sessile; blade elliptic to lanceolate or oblanceolate, 4–12 × 2–5 mm, apex ± obtuse, hirsute with long, straight, eglandular hairs or subglabrous except for midrib and margins. Inflorescences 1–3-flowered, dense cymes; bracts foliaceous, margins not scarious, pubescent. Pedicels becoming curved at apex, slender, 2–12 mm, to 3 times as long as sepals, pubescence spreading, eglandular, fuscous hairs equaling or longer than pedicel diam. Flowers: sepals lanceolate to elliptic, concave, 4–5 mm, margins narrow, apex acute to obtuse, pubescent; petals 1–1.5 times as long as sepals, apex 2-fid; stamens 10; styles 5. Capsules cylindric, slightly curved, 8–11 mm, 1–2 times as long as sepals, teeth 10, ± erect, margins convolute. Seeds brown, 0.8–1 mm, shallowly and obtusely tuberculate; testa not inflated, tightly enclosing seed.
