Herbs perennial, to 18 cm tall. Stems erect or prostrate at base, terete or angular in upper part, usually simple. Lower leaves scalelike. Upper leaves alternate, 3 or 4 crowded at apex of stem in a whorl; petiole 5--8 mm; leaf blade ovate, subleathery, base rounded to broadly cuneate, margin thickened and cartilaginous, apex acute. Racemes in axils of normal leaves, scalelike leaves along stem, 2--4-flowered; rachis 0.5--2 mm; bracts lanceolate to subulate, 2--4 mm. Pedicel 2--5 mm. Calyx ca. 3 mm; lobes ovate, glandular on margin and inside, apex acuminate. Corolla yellow, ca. 7 mm, deeply parted; lobes oblong. Filaments connate basally into a ca. 0.5 mm high ring, fused with corolla, free parts ca. 0.7 mm; anthers ca. 4 mm, basifixed, opening by apical pores. Ovary ovoid; style ca. 4 mm. Capsule unknown.

* On calcareous formations; ca. 2500 m. NW Guangxi