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Leaves in whorls of 3 or 4, blades 1–6 × 0.2–1.6 cm, narrowly oblong or elliptic to oblanceolate, acute at the apex, narrowed to the base, ± sessile; stipule bases short, c. 1 mm long with subulate appendage 1–2.5 mm long, densely hairy inside.
A herb. It can have fine hairs. It grows from a woody rootstock. There are several stems 30-90 cm tall. These are often 3 angled. The leaves are in rings of 3 or 4. The flowers can occur singly or in 3 flowered groups. They are cream or white.
Flowers scented, solitary, or sometimes apparently in 3-flowered inflorescences but actually terminating in short leafless shoots.
Suffrutex, glabrous or finely pubescent, ± glaucous, from a thick woody rootstock; stems several, 30–90 cm tall, often trigonous.
Calyx tube c. 2 mm long, campanulate, ± ribbed in dry state; the limb spreading, c. 1 mm long, undulate or with short teeth.
Anthers exserted, shortly appendaged at base and apex; filaments 3 mm long.
Pollen presenter large and coroniform, 4 × 5 mm, conspicuously lobed.
Style 30–40 mm long, thickened at base.
Ovary (3)5–6-locular.
Fruit not seen.
