Small, compact scabridulous annuals up to 15 cm tall, the side branches mostly abbreviated. Stems with short ridged internodes. Leaves crowded, alternate, narrowly linear, 3-8 cm long, 1-1,5 mm wide, apex acuminate, base attenuate into a thin petiole, margins inrolled with glands evenly spaced at intervals, forming shallow teeth. Flowers numerous, massed along the main stem in the leaf axils of the stem and abbreviated branches, on short pedicels, declinate, small. Sepals linear-lanceolate, 3 mm, ciliate. Petals whitish, pink or purplish; anterior petal forming a basal pouch, clawed and with a spathulate lamina c. 7 mm long. Stamens with the 2 anterior tomentose, bearing a recurved spur. Ovary globose, scabridulous, style short, stigma obtriangular, pointing downwards. Capsule globose, c. 7 mm in diam., scabridulous; seeds stoutly fusiform, apex discoid, striate, yellowish. Fig. 13: 3.
