Description:perennial with woody rhizome, cushion-shaped (Davis); Tight cushions; forming broad neat cushions 2-8cm high in flower from a tough vertical rhizome, its intricate prostrate branches densely clad in glabrous fleshy linear 3-edged (triquetrous) slightly c
Habitat:rock crevices 1700-2500m
| Form of cushion | C | Hemispherical (dome shaped) cushion |
| Compactness | 1 | Compact, hard (peat-accumulating) |
| Variability | 0 | No variability |
| Root system | R | Rhizomes |
| Woodiness | 1 | Woody at base |
| Thorniness | 0 | No |
| Succulence | 0 | No |
| Flowers | 1 | Short peduncle |