Erect, 1-2 ft. high; branches ascending, stout, puberulous; leaves erect-spreading, imbricate, rarely subsquarrose, linear, subobtuse, glabrous, rarely puberulous or canescent, glabrescent, 1-3 lin. long; flowers scanty or more or less densely clustered, corolline; pedicels puberulous, 1-2 1/2 lin. long; bracts laxly subapproximate, sometimes subremote, ovate, acute, keeled, scarious, coloured, rosy or pallid, 1/2-1 1/4 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but larger and broadly elliptic or suborbicular, obtuse or subacute, 3/4-1 1/4 lin. long, mostly reaching to about the top of the corolla-tube; corolla very broadly obconic, much widened to the mouth, very variable in size, 1-2 1/4 lin. long; segments continuous with the tube, semiovate, varying from a little longer than the tube to a little less than 1/2 its length; anthers included, subovate, acute or acuminate, more or less villous, or papillose and glabrous, 2/5-1/2 lin. long; pore 1/4-1/2 the length of the cell, which is produced above the pore for from 1/2-1 1/2 times the length of the latter; style shortly exserted; stigma obconic, very small, rarely subpeltate; ovary glabrous.
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Low, erect shrub, up to 0.5 m tall. Leaves in whorls of 3, 2.5 mm long. Flowers 3 per head, on a shortly hairy pedicel, bract, bracteoles and sepals ± large, pink, corolla broadly cup-shaped, 2.5 mm long, pink, anthers included, without appendages, style exserted, stigma small, disc-like.
Erect shrublet to 1 m. Flowers small to medium, calycine, obconic, pink.
Can be grown by cuttings. Seeds needs stratification.
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