n = 21

n = 21

2n = 42

Spreading low shrub, 0.1-0.3 m tall. Branches prostrate to decumbent; branchlets brown to grey; vegetative internodes (1—)4—8(—12) mm long; stem pubescence uniform, glandular. Leaves spreading to recurved; lamina obovate to orbicular, coriaceous, flat, (7-)12-25(-30) × (6-)8-17 mm; apex obtuse, rounded, or truncate; base cuneate; margin green or red, rounded, smooth or ciliate to glandular-ciliate on uppermost leaves only, crenate with 3-10 pairs of crenations; adaxial surface with minute twin-headed glandular hairs on midrib, glaucescent to dark green, dull, with dense stomata; abaxial surface glabrous, pale green, dull, with dense stomata; midrib thickened beneath and depressed to grooved above. Petiole narrowly winged, 2-5(-8) mm long. Inflorescence with (50-) 100-150 flowers, 2-4 cm long; rachis 1-3 cm long, glandularpubescent; bracts subopposite to alternate, or opposite and decussate below, becoming alternate above, acute to slightly acuminate, glandular-ciliate, deltoid to narrowly deltoid. Pedicels absent. Calyx divisions equally deep, or with anterior lobes united to 2/3-way to apex. Calyx 4-5 mm long; lobes 5, not all similar, lanceolate to deltoid, acuminate, glandular-ciliate. Corolla 11-13 mm diam., pink at anthesis, white after pollination, throat white or pink; corolla tube 1.5-2.0 mm long, 1.7-2.0 mm wide, slightly expanded in lower half, shorter than calyx, glabrous; corolla lobes glabrous; posterior corolla lobe longer than tube, broadly rhomboid, subacute, erect; lateral corolla lobes elliptic, subacute, suberect to spreading; anterior corolla lobe rhomboid, subacute, spreading. Stamen filaments white, inserted at base of corolla tube, 2.5 mm long. Anthers yellow. Nectarial disk glandular-ciliate, or ciliate, or glabrous. Ovary globose to ellipsoid, obtuse to emarginate, glandular hairy at least on suture, 1.3 × 1.0 mm, 0.9 mm thick. Ovules 15-25 per locule. Style 6-7 mm long, 0.18-0.24 mm thick, glabrous, pink to white. Stigma capitate to globose, white at anthesis, 0.3 mm wide. Capsule angustiseptate to turgid, emarginate, dark brown, (3.0-)3.5- 4.0 × 2.0-2.5 mm, 2.0-2.5 mm thick, glabrous. Loculicidal split of capsule extending ½-¾-way to base. Seeds weakly flattened, narrowly obovoid or fusiform, winged, weakly rugulose on back, pale brown, (1.7-)2.0-2.5 × 0.7-1.1 mm. Chromosome number 2n = 42 (Hair 1967). FL Oct-Nov(-Jan), FT Jan(-Mar).