Small, decumbent suffrutex, branches 0.09-0.15 m long; coarsely stellate-hairy, with sessile, bulbous-based and stipitate hairs. Leaves petiolate (± 2 mm), oblong-elliptic, 35 mm long, margins crenate; venation conspicuously brownish, terminally reticulate, scattered with bulbous-based, stellate hairs. Stipules parted into 2 leaf-like segments, ovate. Inflorescences terminal, 2-or 3-flowered; peduncles filiform, 55 mm long; pedicels filiform. Flowers 9 mm long, white to pale pink. Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed to middle. Petals 1.5x as long as calyx. Flowering time Oct.-Mar.
Perennial herb, up to 0.15 m high, glabrescent. Stems procumbent or decumbent. Leaves petiolate; blade oblong to broadly ovate, lower surface prominently veined, upper and lower surfaces with glabrescent hairs. Flowers: pendulous in lateral, 2-or 3-flowered cymes; calyx campanulate, deeply lobed; petals 8-10 mm long, red, orange-red, reddish with fine dark veins; Sep.-Feb.