Much-branched prostrate to sprawling shrub with stout main branches up to 1 m. or more long; ultimate branchlets ∞, up to c. 5 cm. long, densely clad in imbricate, rigid, coriac. lvs. Sheath 4-6 × 2-3 mm., ciliolate, subtruncate to rather abruptly narrowed into rigid coriac. lamina ± 20-30-(50) × 1-1·5-(2) mm.; surface ± pubescent, margins ciliolate, apex pungent. Fls solitary, terminal on branchlets; sepals unequal, longest = corolla-tube, lanceolate, acute, ciliolate; corolla-tube 7-10 × 3-4 mm., lobes white, short, ovate-triangular. Capsule depressed, broad-obovoid, ± 4 × 3 mm. Style persistent, c. 3 mm. long.