Perennial herb, 4-12 cm high. Stem erect, glandular or not, with glabrous or glandular stolons. Leaves usually congested basally, sessile, obovate to ovate-lanceolate, glandular. Flowers usually 1-3(-8). Pedicels glan¬dular. Sepals free or basally united, acute or obtuse. Petals yellow, twice or more the length of sepals, broadly ovate or obovate. Filaments as long as the sepals or shorter, glabrous. Capsule rounded-ovoid.