Stems several, erect or ascending, rather stiff, 6-20 cm, densely appressed-pilose, with fulvous, afterwards greyish, more or less shining hairs. Internodes 3-5 mm. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, 4-12 by 1-2½ mm, erect or erecto-patent, attenuate towards the base, acute or acuminate at the apex, densely appressed-pilose like the stems. Peduncles short, 2-5 mm, pilose like the stems. Pedicels as long as or usually much longer than the calyx, to 7 mm. Bracts subulate, 1 mm. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 2½-3 mm, appressed-pilose. Corolla 8-9 mm diam.