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Cushion-forming dwarf shrub, up to 40 cm tall, with aerial stems 4–10 mm thick. Leaves oblanceolate-elliptic, 10–25 x 3–7 mm, narrowing below into a broad petiole-like base, covered with appressed hairs up to c. 0.8 mm long. Flowers whitish, arranged in axillary dense sessile cymes along the upper sides of the branches. Calyx-lobes c. 2–3 mm long. Corolla-tube 1.5–2 mm long, with 4 thickenings c. 1 mm from the base inside, glabrous outside; lobes c. 1.5–2 mm long, entire, pubescent outside. Style c. 2–2.5 mm long, pubescent for most of its length; stigma lobes 0.4–0.5 mm long. Capsule 1-seeded, c. 4 x 5.5 mm; dissepiment c. 3 x 1.2 mm, with a c. 0.4 mm long placenta; seed c. 2.5 mm long.