Region: Canary Islands, Tenerife.
Habitat: altitude of 600 to 2000 metres.
BotanyHerb, shrubby; forming little bushes; 15 cm tall.
Roots: fibrous.
Stem: small erect, glabrous, much-branched sub-shrub; branches grey, tortuous, bare save near the apices.
Leaves: laxly spaced, linear-elliptic, quite smooth; 1 to 2 cm long, 4 mm broad, 3 mm thick; alternate; green, red, or purplish, never grey; ovoid buds; not rosulate, sessile, glabrous, linear-elliptic, rather blunt, subtereta, flattish and channelled on face.
Inflorescence: pseudo-terminal, 2 to 6 flowered, racemose, pedicels glabrous, filiform, up to 2.5 cm long; buds broadly ovoid.
Flowers: 7-parted; 1 cm across, greenish-yellow. Calyx: glabrous, cut halfway down into deltoid subacute segments; blooming May to June.
Corolla: petals deltoid-lanceolate, acute, 4 mm long, greenish-yellow with reddish nerve.
Androecium: stamens nearly equaling the petals, filaments reddish, anthers yellow; scales 1 mm long, 1,5mm broad, narrow below, expanded above into two subcircular scrabid pale green lobes. Gynoecium: carpels 2,5 mm long; short styles at first erect, later divergent.