Perennial, with stout us. much-branched stems which are prostrate below (often ± buried) then ascending to suberect, 7·5-15 cm. long. Basal lvs ∞, crowded; lamina thick to rather thin, 10-20 × 5-7-9 mm., spathulate or linear-spathulate, obtuse, narrowed to slender petiole ═ or > lamina, nerves not evident. Exposed lvs ± fleshy. Cauline lvs similar, on shorter petioles, close together or distant. Fls terminal, solitary, or in 2-5-fld cymes at tips of branches. Calyx broad, often c. ? corolla-length, cut nearly 3/4 way into linear or linear-ligulate obtuse or subacute lobes recurved at tips; sinuses us. narrow and acute, or one or more broad and rounded. Corolla often up to 20 mm. diam., white, broadly campanulate to subrotate, cut rather > 1/2 way into oblong, obtuse lobes.

2n = 36

2n = 36

2n = 36

n = 18

Plants polycarpic, height in flower 40–170 mm. Flowering stems terminal and lateral or lateral only, (2–)4–16 per plant, stems tinted purple-black, lateral flowering stems decumbent, 1.3–2.6 mm diam. when dry, flowering stem leaves 4–5 pairs per stem, lowest pedicels from halfway up flowering stem. Rosette leaves narrowly elliptic to elliptic, leaf apex rounded, 17.8–87 mm long, 3.2– 17.5 mm wide, green, not recurved; petiole distinct, 14.5–64 mm long, 0.7–3.4 mm wide at leaf base. Pedicels 1 per axil, 10–67 mm long, 1.4–1.5 mm diam., 0.7–1.3 mm diam. when dry. Flowers 9–82 per plant, 15.0–24.2 mm long. Calyx 6.8–8.8 mm long, green; lobes 4.5–6.2 mm long, 2.0–3.2 mm wide at base, distinctly recurved, apices acute, margins minutely denticulate, sinus hairs absent. Corolla 13.7–15.7 mm long, white, veins uncoloured; tube 3.5–4.0 mm long; lobes 9.6–11.2 mm long, 6.7– 7.4 mm wide; nectaries 2.5–3.7 mm from corolla base. Filaments 7.6–8.1 mm long from corolla base, 0.7–0.8 mm wide. Anthers 2.0–2.1 mm long, anther wall blue-black, mouth yellow, extrorse at anthesis. Stigma colourless. Ovules 30–44 per ovary. Capsule 10.0–19.3 mm long. FL late Jan–early Feb.