2n = 42

n = 21

Subshrub or spreading low shrub, 0.05-0.3 m tall. Branches prostrate to erect; branchlets brown, red-brown, or grey; vegetative internodes 1-15 mm long; stem pubescence uniform, glandular and eglandular. Leaves erecto-patent to spreading or recurved; lamina lanceolate, oblanceolate, obovate, or spathulate, coriaceous, flat to concave, (4-)7-15(-25) × 2-6(-9) mm; apex acute to rounded, base cuneate; margin green to red, rounded, smooth or eglandular and glandular-ciliate, entire or crenate or serrate; adaxial surface glabrous, green, bronze green, or yellowish green, glossy or dull, with numerous stomata; abaxial surface glabrous, green, pale green to yellowish green, dull, with numerous stomata; midrib depressed to grooved above, thickened or depressed to grooved beneath. Petiole narrowly winged, 1-5 mm long. Inflorescence with 10-100 flowers, (1.5-)2.0-5.0(-5.5) cm long. Peduncle 0.5-1.5 cm long; rachis 0.8-1.5(-4.0) cm long, pubescent; bracts opposite and decussate to subopposite to alternate, subacute, eglandularciliate or ciliate with both glandular and eglandular hairs, deltoid. Pedicels 0-0.5 mm long. Calyx with anterior lobes united at least 2/3-way to apex, 2.0- 3.5(-4.0) mm long; lobes 4-5, not all similar, lanceolate to elliptic, obtuse, eglandular-ciliate, or glandular and eglandular-ciliate. Corolla 6-8 mm diam., pink to mauve or white at anthesis, white to mauve after pollination; corolla tube 2.0-3.0(-3.5) mm long, 3-2 mm wide, cylmdric to funnelforrn, shorter than or equalling calyx, glabrous; corolla lobes glabrous: posterior lobe about equalling or longer than tube, elliptic to rhomboid, obtuse, erect to recurved; lateral lobes elliptic, oblong, or lanceolate, subacute to obtuse, spreading; anterior lobe elliptic to rhomboid, subacute to obtuse, spreading. Stamen filaments white, inserted at or slightly above middle of corolla tube, 1.5-3.5 mm long. Anthers yellow. Nectarial disk glabrous, ciliolate, ciliate, or glandular-ciliate. Ovary globose, obtuse to emarginate, glabrous or sparsely eglandular hairy at apex, 0,8-1.0 × 0.7-1.0 mm, 0.6-0.8 mm thick. Ovules 10-16 per locule. Style 4-7 mm long, 0.15-0.3 mm thick, glabrous or with a few unicellular hairs at base, white or mauve. Stigma capitate, white at anthesis, 0.2-0.45 mm wide. Capsule angustiseptate to turgid, truncate, emarginate, or didymous, dark brown, 3.0-4.0 × (1.8-)2.0- 2.5(-3.0) mm, 1.5-2.0 mm thick, glabrous or with eglandular unicellular or multicellular hairs; loculicidal split extending ¼-½-way to base. Seeds flattened or weakly flattened, ellipsoid to fusiform or irregular, winged, smooth or very weakly rugulose on back, straw yellow to pale brown, 1.2- 2.0(-2.8) × 0.6-1.2 mm. Chromosome number 2n = 42 (Hair 1967).