Erect shrub, up to 0.3 m high. Leaves 3-nate, erect, incurved imbricate, 5-6 mm long, linear, obtuse, below often sulcate, scabrid-hirsute; pedicels patent and decurved, hirsute, 5-6 mm long; bracts 3, subbasal, 1 mm long, lowest one slightly smaller. Calyx sepals ± 15 mm long, ovate, acute. Corolla 4-5 mm long, cyathiform, throat slightly contracted, partly hispidulous; lobes erect and patent, 1 mm long, subobtuse. Anthers included, ± 1 mm long, oblong, aristate; appendages attached at base of theca; pore half length of theca or smaller. Ovary villous; stigma capitate, included or manifest. Flowering time July-Oct.