Diffuse, 6-10 in. high, densely and intricately branched, with numerous flowers; branches slender, puberulous, dark red; leaves usually 4-occasionally 3-nate, spreading, incurved or recurved, linear, blunt, sulcate, hispid, 1-1 1/4 lin. long; flowers terminal, 4-nate to solitary; pedicels pubescent, about 1 lin. long; bracts remote, minute; sepals lanceolate or linear, coloured or greenish, under 1 lin. long; corolla campanulate-cyathiform, mouth scarcely widened or contracted, hirsute with short squarrose hairs, about 1 lin. long; segments erect or spreading, rounded, 1/2-2/3 the length of the tube; filaments capillary; anthers included, lateral, dorsifixed just above the base, ovate-cuneate, about 1/5 lin. long, aristate; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; awns slender, rough-edged, more than 1/2 the length of the cell; style included; stigma capitellate; ovary hirsute.
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Erect, diffuse shrublet to 20 cm. Flowers small, cup-shaped, whitish, hairy.