Erect shrub up to about 30 cm (1 ft), somewhat slender. Branches numerous, often diffuse with many short lateral branchlets bearing abundant flowers, mostly hirsute. Leaves 3-nate, 2-3 mm long, more or less spreading, linear to lanceolate, thick, sulcate, rarely narrow-ovate and open-backed, mostly hispidulous, sometimes glabrescent. Flowers terminal on short branchlets, often pseudo-racemose; peduncles about 2 mm long, hispid; bracts median, small, occasionally one longer and foliaceous. Sepals 1.5 mm long, lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong, keeled, hispid, ciliate, foliaceous or coloured. Corolla about 2 mm long, narrow-campanulate to broad-campanulate or cyathiform, about as wide as long, the mouth more or less widened, glabrous or rarely puberulous, pink or mauve; lobes distinctly and sometimes widely spreading, obtuse, from 1/2 to equal the length of the tube. Filaments slender, bent below the anther; anthers included or manifest, 0.5-0.7 mm long, lateral, oblong, subcuneate or narrow-elliptic, muticous or appendiculate; pore less than 1/2 the length of the cell; awn minute or long. Ovary turbinate, hispidulous at least at the top; style exserted; stigma capitate.
Erect shrub, 0.3-1.5 m high, slender. Branches with simple hairs. Leaves 3-nate, ± spreading, 2-3 mm long, linear to lanceolate, thick, sulcate, hispidulous. Flowers terminal on short branchlets, often pseudo-racemose. Calyx sepals 1.5 mm long, lanceolate, keeled, hispid, foliaceous or coloured. Corolla ± 2 mm long, narrow-campanulate or cyathiform, ± glabrous, pink or mauve; lobes distinctly spreading, obtuse, 1/2 or equal length of tube. Filaments slender, bent below anther; anthers included or manifest, 0.5-0.7 mm long, oblong, subcuneate or narrowly elliptic, muticous or appendiculate; pore < 1/2 length of theca; awn minute to long and thin. Ovary turbinate, hispidulous at top; style exserted; stigma capitate. Flowering time Apr.-Sept.
Erect shrublet to 1.5 m. Flowers small, cup-shaped, pink.