caespitose, dwarf, much branched, branches short, villous, diffuse; leaves crowded, opposite, and alternate, obovate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, remotely denticulate, marginate, ciliate at the base; flowers solitary, terminal, shortly pedunculate; tube of calyx obconical, hispid; lobes glabrous, lanceolate-acuminate, marginate, entire or subdenticulate, as long as the tube; corolla infundibuliform, 2–3-times longer than the calyx. A perennial, resembling the Alpine Edraianthus, prostrate, the twigs very numerous, short, leafy. Leaves angustate at the base, 4–6 lines long, 1 1/2–2 lines wide, glabrous, except the base. Peduncle 1–3 lines long, hairy. Corolla 1/2 inch long, 5-lobed at the apex. Capsule crowned by the erect calyx-lobes.
