Compact shrub, with prostrate branches up to 400 mm long, rising at tips. Leaves 3-sided, ± 40-70 x 4-5 mm. Flowers ± 15 mm diam., bracteoles forming a pouch around pedicel, petals densely seriate, 2 mm broad, magenta, filamentous staminodes white basally. Fruit 5-locular.