Low-growing shrub "covering large area of ground"; branches slender, semi-trailing, to 50 cm. or more long but flowering at 30 cm. or less; branchlets reddish, c. 1 mm. diam., obscurely tuberculate. Lvs about 4-8 cm. × 5-10 mm., narrow linear-lanceolate, subacute, sessile with narrow winged base; margins entire except near apex and base, teeth small, acute, the lowest ± backwardly directed (small lvs often dentate throughout); lamina submembr., glab., with very obscure pellucid spots. Fls 1-2 in lf-axil, pedicels 4-5 mm. long. Calyx-lobes 5-7 × 2 mm., elongating to 8-9 mm. in fruit, narrow-lanceolate, acute, us. entire. Corolla purplish, 6-8 mm. long, narrow campanulate, lobes shorter than tube, subequal, the anterior us. broader than the others, subobtuse, villous within. Stamens 4, about equal to corolla-tube. Style c. 5 mm. long, often persisting in mature fr. Ovary 2-loculed. Drupe globular, c. 9 × 10 mm. but size varying considerably on one branch; white below, flushed with reddish purple above; the included pyrene stony, c. 5 × 5 mm., laterally compressed and ± biconvex, slightly emarginate and faintly grooved on flatter faces.

Low, spreading subshrub, with mound-forming habit. Stems slender, semi-trailing, often reddish on upper side, somewhat tuberculate. Lvs sessile, greenish in bud, c. 4-8-(10) × 0.5-0.8-(1) cm, linear-lanceolate, membranous, obscurely glandular, entire or with a few narrow dentate teeth towards base and apex; apex subacute. Fls 1-2; pedicels 4-5 mm long at anthesis. Calyx 5-7 × 2 mm, linear-lanceolate. Corolla 6-8 mm long, narrow-campanulate, mauve, without dark dots, white-bearded inside; lobes slightly < tube, with anterior lobe usually widest. Style glabrous. Drupe c. 9 × 10 mm, subglobose, often white below and reddish purple on exposed side.