Plant: Subshrub usually less than 20 cm, ± taprooted; stem hairs ± spreading Leaves: leaves irregularly alternate and clustered, ovate-elliptic <1 cm long, soft-canescent, grayish; veins obscure, margin entire, spiny-ciliate INFLORESCENCE: ± axillary; flowers ± solitary; bracts 0 Flowers: calyx 3-5 mm, free 2/3-3/4 length; corolla 5-lobed, generally ± funnel-shaped, tube yellow when young, appendages 0; style branched < 1/3 from tip, shortly exserted from calyx Fruit: nutlets, 1-4, spheric, 4-grooved, not lobed; Seed 2-2.5 mm, ovoid, minutely tubercled, hairy or not Misc: Slopes, ridges of broken granite, limestone, gneiss; 500-1500 m.