Prostrate to low-growing shrub up to c. 15 cm. tall or more, forming extensive dense patches; branches decumbent to ascending; branchlets close-set, minutely puberulous when young, densely clad in erect imbricate lvs. Lamina sessile or subsessile, coriac., glab., us. brownish green above, paler below, finely nerved, ± 4-9 × 1-2 mm., obovate-oblong; margins scarious to cartilaginous, finely ciliolate; abruptly narrowed to pungent tip ± 2 mm. long. Infl. of axillary solitary sessile fls; bracts minute, apiculate. Fls small; calyx-lobes acute. Corolla-tube cylindric. > twice length calyx; lobes short, acute, densely hairy on upper surfaces. Fr. orange to yellow, broad-oblong in outline, 8-9 mm. long.