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Succulent perennial herb, up to 20 mm tall. Leaves spirally arranged, small, half hidden under stipules. Stipules submembranous, scaly and silvery. Flowers pale pink, apricot or white.

In rock crevices.

Petals 2·5–6 × 1·5–4 mm., broadly elliptic, obtuse. Sepals 3 × 2 mm., broadly ovate, subacute or obtuse. Flowers pale pink, apricot or white, terminal, solitary, hidden by the bracts or visible if grown under humid conditions; bracts 4–7 mm. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, imbricate, similar in appearance to the stipules. Leaves sessile, green, fleshy, 1 × 1·5–2 mm., oblate, very broadly acute at the apex, entire; stipules submembranous, scaly, silvery, overlapping and hiding the stem and leaves, c. 2·5 × 2 mm., ovate-orbicular, rounded at the apex (particularly low down on the stems), or cuspidate, or very shortly split, or the cusp split into two more or less divergent horns less than 1 mm. long, clasping the stem and erect, or somewhat spreading, or the cusps recurved. Densely caespitose glabrous branching perennial up to c. 3 cm. tall; branches erect, usually simple, c. 3 mm. in diam. Capsule c. 3 mm. long, 4-valved, greenish, oblong-ovoid. Ovary ovoid; style 1·5 mm. long; stigma simple. Seeds c. 0·6 × 0·5 mm., ellipsoid with a minute blunt horn or outgrowth, pale brown with an interior transparent integument covered over most of its surface by a paler outer integument. Stamens 6–8; filaments shortly connate at the base, c. 2 mm. long. Sepals 3 × 2 mm., broadly ovate, subacute or obtuse. Flowers pale pink, apricot or white, terminal, solitary, hidden by the bracts or visible if grown under humid conditions; bracts 4–7 mm. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, imbricate, similar in appearance to the stipules. Leaves sessile, green, fleshy, 1 × 1·5–2 mm., oblate, very broadly acute at the apex, entire; stipules submembranous, scaly, silvery, overlapping and hiding the stem and leaves, c. 2·5 × 2 mm., ovate-orbicular, rounded at the apex (particularly low down on the stems), or cuspidate, or very shortly split, or the cusp split into two more or less divergent horns less than 1 mm. long, clasping the stem and erect, or somewhat spreading, or the cusps recurved. Densely caespitose glabrous branching perennial up to c. 3 cm. tall; branches erect, usually simple, c. 3 mm. in diam. Capsule c. 3 mm. long, 4-valved, greenish, oblong-ovoid. Ovary ovoid; style 1·5 mm. long; stigma simple. Seeds c. 0·6 × 0·5 mm., ellipsoid with a minute blunt horn or outgrowth, pale brown with an interior transparent integument covered over most of its surface by a paler outer integument. Stamens 6–8; filaments shortly connate at the base, c. 2 mm. long.