Caulescent woody perennials (roots absent from herbarium collections). Stem decumbent, only the upper, younger part erect, densely covered with the old reflexed, hard petioles and stipules. Leaves closely imbricate, spreading; petioles 2-2.5 cm long, firm, strigose inside the concave lower side; stipules large, 1 cm, orange brown, entire at the base, cleft above into 5-7 long bristles; lamina obovate, up to 1 cm long and 5 mm broad, with the long, knob-shaped tentacles densely arranged along the margin; lower surface strigose with the hairs attached laterally near one side, parallel with the epidermis. Inflorescences 1-2, appearing near the apex, up to 10 cm long, scape leafless, wiry, somewhat flexuose, pedicels up to 7 mm long; flowers 6-12, secund. Calyx-lobes ovate, acute 5 mm long. Petals broadly obovate, cuneate, 11 mm long, reddish purple. Stamens short with the connective rhomboidal. Styles bifurcate, stigmatic apex shortly flabellate-multifid. Capsule depressed-globose; seeds fusiform, 1.5 mm long, with a broad foot and a tapered apiculus, papillate-beaded.
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Like D. capensis but with long, sprawling stems, leaf blades shortly obovoid and stipules long-lacerate and stigmas shortly multifid.
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