Low-growing, ± sprawling; branchlets ± pubescent, without setose hairs. Lvs rather uniform, stiff, coriac., on petioles up to ± 1 mm. long. Lamina ± 8-12 × 5-9 mm., oblong to broad-oblong, obtuse, ± mucronulate, subtruncate at base; margins crenulate to subentire. Fls in terminal and occ. subterminal racemes up to c. 4 cm. long; pedicels at first pendent, up to c. 5 mm. long, erecting in fr.; bracteoles ovate-acuminate to ovate-acute, ± 2.5 mm. long. Calyx deeply 5-lobed; lobes ovate-triangular, acute or subacute, c. 1·5 mm. long. Corolla urceolate, pubescent within; tube 2.5 mm. long, lobes short-triangular, recurved. Filaments up to 2 mm. long, widened towards base, then narrowed to insertion; anther-awns distinct. Capsule ± 3 mm. diam.

Usually an erect shrub up to 1 metre high. Branchlets with a fine pubescence, but bristles completely absent. Leaves alternate, 8-14 × 5-10 mm petiolate, orbicular or orbicular-oblong, extremely thick, apex obtuse, margins bluntly serrulate or crenulate, teeth armed with bristles in the younger leaves, both surfaces completely glabrous, or a few bristles on the upper surface of the midrib, veins very conspicuous on the lower surface. Inflorescence a solitary terminal raceme, rarely one or two lateral racemes also present. Peduncle pubescent. Corolla pubescent within.

Shrub to 1 m high, usually erect, sometimes almost sprawling; branchlets puberulent. Lvs alternate, rather uniform, stiff, very thick and coriaceous; petioles to c. 1 mm long. Lamina c. 8-12 × 5-9 mm, elliptic, broadly elliptic to orbicular; margins crenulate to subentire; base broadly cuneate to rounded; apex usually rounded, sometimes apiculate. Fls in terminal and occasionally subterminal racemes to c. 4 cm long; pedicels glabrous or glabrate, to c. 5 mm long; bracteoles 1.5-2 mm long, ovate, acute to acuminate. Calyx lobes 1.5-2 mm long, ovate-triangular, acute or subacute. Corolla urceolate; tube c. 2.5 mm long; lobes shortly triangular. Capsules c. 3 mm diam., invested by dry calyx.