Perennials with sparsely branched underground tubers up to 60 mm long with short sparsely branched stems up to 15 mm long and with pale bark. Leaves spathulate-orbicular, 4—12 x 3-14 mm, cuneate to alÂmost petiolate, obtuse, dorsiventrally comÂpressed and slightly grooved above, more or less densely covered with blunt erect tri-chomes, deep green. Inflorescence a thyrse with l(-3) monochasia each with 1-3 flowÂers, glandular-pubescent; peduncle 8—15 mm long, pale; pedicel 5-13 mm long. Calyx 2-3,5 mm long, glandular-puberulous to puÂbescent, yellowish green; lobes triangular-lanceolate, acute. Corolla glandular-pubesÂcent, pale yellow to yellowish green; tube cylindrical, 6-8 mm long, inside with few fine hairs mainly where filaments are fused to tube; lobes 3-4 mm long, recurved to reÂcoiled. Anthers 1-1,3 mm long. Squamae oblong, 1,1-1,3 x 0,2-0,4 mm, usually more or less emarginate, fleshy, yellow.
