Perennial herb or subshrub, diffuse or prostrate, sparsely glandular-hairy with type 1 hairs; stems to 1 m or more long. Leaves narrowly lanceolate to narrowly ovate; lamina to 3 cm long; petioles to 1 cm long; upper leaves sessile, bract-like. Inflorescences axillary and terminal, often compound and tending to be zig-zag; basic inflorescence unit a solitary flower or a few-flowered glomerule; peduncles filiform, to 1.5 cm long. Perianth with basal part glandular-hairy; upper part glabrous or puberulous, tubular to campanulate, c. 1 mm long, pink. Stamens 1 or 2, included. Stigma included. Fruit fusiform, to 4 mm long, 1.5 mm wide; ribs 5, prominent, glabrous or sparsely glandular-hairy, mucous; furrows wide, white. See also Du Puy & Telford (1993: 106–107).
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