Stout erect upright-branching shrub. Branches terete, brownish purple, internodes c. 1 cm. long. Lvs patent, "pale apple-green", duller on undersurface, c. 5 cm. × 12 mm., lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, fleshy; lf-bud without sinus, the lf-base slightly > stem; lamina sub-acute, entire, one or both surfaces covered with extremely fine sparse pubescence when young. Infls lateral, simple, c. = lvs; peduncle pubescent, ± purple stained. Fls crowded, bracts subulate, acute, < pedicels. Calyx-lobes 3-3·5 mm. long, acute, ciliolate, the surface very finely pubescent like young lvs. Corolla-tube and obtuse lobes c. = calyx, style very pubescent. Capsule c. 5 × 4 mm., ovate, almost 2 × calyx.

2n = 80

n = 40

2n = 40