Herb, 5-10 cm high, with red, slender, leafless runners, terminating in a bud. Leaves basally crowded, sessile, 7-11 mm long, elliptic-lanceolate, setose-ciliate, apex aristate, surfaces glabrous. Flowers yellow, 2-4, in corymbs. Pedicels 1-3 cm long, glandular. Sepals 3 mm long, ovate, obtuse, glabrous, basally united. Petals 7 mm long, ovate. Capsule c. 4 mm long. Seeds ellipsoid, very minutely papillose.