Many-branched tufted perennial forming compact rounded cushion with rootlets on branches amongst old lvs. Vegetative stems to 5 cm. long, the ultimate twigs crowded, ± erect, closely covered with imbricate to patent lvs. Lvs 5 × 3 mm., very broadly spathulate, lamina broad and obtuse or almost emarginate above, scarcely narrowed to the broadly winged petiole; hairs short, stiff, ± appressed, rather numerous on both surfaces of lamina of young lvs but soon falling so that most of plant is glab. Flowering lateral branches very short, almost hidden amongst lvs, each with a few broad elliptic subacute stem-lvs surrounding the solitary terminal almost sessile fl.; hairs as on other young lvs. Calyx 2-3 mm. long, lobes c. 1/2 length, narrow, acute, with rather sparse cover of appressed hairs. Corolla apparently white, c. 5 mm. diam., tube ± cylindric, 4 mm. long, lobes c. 2 × 1·5 mm., oblong; filaments short, anthers c. 1 mm. long, almost entirely above corolla-scales but lower extremity apparently us. included in tube; style much > calyx, stigma capitate. Nutlets not seen.

Compact rounded cushion to 5 cm tall; rootlets at some nodes. Lvs imbricate to patent, very broadly spathulate; hairs short, stiff, ± appressed on both surfaces of young lvs, caducous. Fl. solitary, terminal. Calyx hairs sparse, appressed. Corolla white, c. 5 mm diam.; tube ± cylindric; filaments short; anthers small, greater part above scale.