Procumbent, mat-forming perennial herbs with ascending flowering branches. Leaves up to 2-1 cm long and 1-4 cm broad, elliptic-ovate to ovate-orbicular, acute or rounded, narrowed towards the petiole-like base, more or less crowded towards the base or scattered along the stems. Inflorescence a 1-few-flowered terminal cyme; bracts foliaceous, the lower ones ovate, but becoming progressively smaller and narrower. Calyx of 5 segments, each 9 • 5-11 ? 5 mm long, 2-2 • 5 mm broad, lanceolate, acuminate, softly membranous, joined for 0-75-2 mm, keeled or with a thick, very narrow wing. Corolla bright yellow; tube 1-3-2-1 cm long; lobes 0-8-1-1 cm long; 4-6 mm broad, ovate or ovate-oblong, rounded or subacute, clawed. Filaments 0-25-0-75 mm long, inserted 3-5-6 mm below the corolla-sinuses; anthers 2-25-2-75 mm long, each with an oblong-conical, red-brown (when dry) apical gland 0-6-0-75 mm long and mostly with 2 small round basal glands. Style and stigma 2-5-6 mm long; stigma linear-oblong, rarely somewhat clavate, 1 -25-2-4 mm long, 2-lobed.
