Stems rather stout, creeping, up to ± 3 dm. long, bark blackish brown; branchlets ± flexible, up to ± 4 cm. × 5 mm. including lvs. Lvs glab., coriac., densely imbricate, ascending, persistent, us. clothing branchlet almost throughout. Sheath c. 2-3 mm. long, broad, thin-margined, gradually narrowing into ovate-subulate to narrow-subulate lamina (3)-5-6 × 1·5-2.5m.; apex obtuse, margins minutely serrulate. Fls solitary, terminal, c. 4 mm. long; sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse to subacute, slightly < corolla-tube. Corolla-tube 3-4 mm. long, cylindric; lobes broadly ovate-oblong, spreading, obtuse, c. 1·5 mm. long.