Erect, stout, 1-1 1/2 ft. or more high; branches ascending, mostly flexuous, sometimes subvirgate, usually floccose-tomentose, as are the pedicels, with short greyish plumulose hairs, more rarely puberulous; leaves erect, often ad pressed, imbricate, rarely somewhat spreading, linear-trigonous, subacute, sulcate, glossy, 1-3 (mostly 2-2 1/2) lin. long; flowers numerous, mostly crowded at the ends of short lateral branchlets, calycine, glossy; pedicels tomentose or rarely subglabrous, 1-1 1/2 lin. long; bracts approximate to subremote, ovate, coloured, shorter than the sepals; sepals imbricate below and somewhat spreading at the apex, ovate or obovate, acute or obtuse and cuspidate, keeled, concave, thick, rigid, ciliate or rarely naked, glossy, coloured, 1-1 1/4 lin. long, reaching 2/3-3/4 the length of the corolla; corolla campanulate, cyathiform or subglobose-urceolate, only in the last-named form, very slightly contracted at the throat, 1 1/4-1 1/2 lin. long, red or rosy; segments spreading, sometimes horizontally, ovate, 1/2-3/4 the length of the tube; anthers included, lateral, oblong, obtuse; cells bipartite, 3/8-1/2 lin. long, crested; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; crests suborbicular in outline, deeply incised, about 2/3 the length of the cell; style shortly exserted; stigma capitellate; ovary glabrous.
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Small, erect shrub, up to 500 mm tall. Leaves in whorls of 3, 2 mm long, with minutely fringed edges. Flowers 3 per head, bracts, bracteoles and calyx ± large, pink, corolla cup-shaped, 3 mm long, pale pink, anthers included, style exserted, with a small stigma.
Erect shrublet to 1 m. Flowers small, pink to magenta.
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