Erect or rarely low spreading shrub (0.2-) 0.8-2.0 m tall. Branchlets angular, subsericeous between ridges. Leaves sublinear to narrowly elliptic or slightly oblanceolate, (0.8-) 2-5 (-7) cm long, 1-3 mm wide (juveniles to 7 mm), straight, usually rigid, pungent, sometimes in clusters of 3; upper surface punctate with veins prominent and granulose to scabrid; margins refracted, usually at more than 90º to plane of upper surface; lower surface exposed and subsericeous or mostly enclosed and 2-grooved. Conflorescence terminal, often aggregated, erect to decurved, sessile to shortly pedunculate, regular and umbelloid or occasionally subsecund, scarcely exceeding adjacent leaves, usually many-flowered. Flowers adaxially oriented to acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth pale pink to dark mauve-pink or rarely white; style similar. Perianth subsericeous outside, bearded inside. Pistil (6.5-) 8-8.5 (-10.5) mm long; style gently curved with a sharp hook in the apical 2 mm, minutely hairy or papillose in apical 1 mm; pollen-presenter oblique. Follicle narrowly ellipsoid, c. 11 mm long, faintly warty.
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