Slender woody perennial, 30–60 cm high, sparsely stellate-woolly or glabrous. Branchlets smooth. Leaves ascending to spreading, linear to narrowly elliptic, 6–20 mm long, acute or obtuse, concave adaxially, sparsely lanate to glabrous. Inflorescence a many-flowered leafless raceme to 15 cm (or more) long, sparsely to densely woolly; bracts broadly elliptic, c. 4 mm long, caducous; pedicels slender, c. 7 mm long; bracteoles nearly always minute. Sepals narrowly to broadly triangular, c. 1.5 mm long, sparsely woolly. Petals broadly elliptic, c. 4.5 mm long, pink or mauve or blue, glabrous (rarely sparsely woolly along abaxial midrib). Stamens: filaments linear-attenuate, 2–2.5 mm long, silky-ciliate; anthers suborbicular, c. 0.8 mm long. Style 0.5–1 mm long, glabrous; stigma capitate. Cocci c. 3 mm high, obtuse with erect bidentate apex.
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