Plant up to ± 25 cm. tall, with stout, spreading stems; branches glabrate, us. at wide angle, ± tortuous, bark almost black, lf-scars prominent; branchlets ± clad in long silky hairs. Lvs at first ascending, becoming patent, sessile or nearly so. Lamina 5-10 × 1-2 mm., linear-lanceolate, ± concave above, inrolled when dry, coriac., glab. or laxly hairy on surface, apex and margins ciliate. Subfloral lvs up to 3 mm. broad. Infl. of (4)-6-9-fld heads. Per. silky-hairy to villous, white; tube 6-9 mm. long, lobes broad-ovate to oblong, ± 3 mm. long. Fr. baccate, red, ovoid, acute, with pencil of hairs at apex.