In low rounded clumps or bunches. Stems many, woody, 5-12 cm long, ascending or erect, usually branched, the younger appearing white or hairy owing to the prominent stipules. Leaves alternate, usually crowded 0.5-1.5 cm long, spreading. Stipules 3-6 mm long, thin, translucent, the lower part entire, partly sheathing, the upper part and sides cut into fine straight hairs 1.5-3 times as long as the basal part. Stipules very slightly adnate to the leaf-base. Peduncles stout, red or purple, 4-12 cm long, with a whorl or partial whorl of leaves at the top. Inflorescence lax, spreading, usually with 3 main branches again branched, the ultimate pseudoracemose. Flowers numerous. Perianth segments 3.5-4 mm long. Disc 3-lobed, the lobes acute or with a raised central point, red or orange. Stigmas large, red or orange, wedge-shaped, flat. Fruit 4-5 mm long, about as long as the perianth. Seeds black, shining, globose-biconvex.
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Like P. incanum but with sprawling branches, up to 1.2 m long, stipules larger, floral disc red to orange.
Like P. incanum but with sprawling branches to 1.2 m, stipules larger, floral disc red to orange.
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