Woody shrublet 80 mm-1 m tall, compact and rounded or more lax, main branches erect to spreading, trunk gnarled, up to 20 mm in diam., bark whitish, branchlets divaricate, tips eventually spinescent, densely pubescent, hairs up to c. 0.1 mm long, ± patent to retrorse, leafy. Leaves alternate, fascicled, largest primary leaves 1-10 x 0.5-2 mm (axillary leaves often much smaller, c. 0.3-5 x 0.3-1.2 mm), narrowly to broadly elliptic or suborbicular, apex obtuse, base narrowed, margins entire, ± revolute, texture very thick, primary leaves often strongly reflexed, glandular-punctate, very minute hairs scattered all over, often most conspicuous (c. 0.1 mm long) on margins at base, then leaf surface seeming glabrous. Inflorescence composed of few-flowered, very congested glomerules (spikes) c. 3-6 x 3-5 mm, initially terminal, many more produced in succession below the terminal one, all but the few uppermost borne on leafy divaricate lateral branchlets c. 10-100 mm long, themselves often bearing several glomerules, each branchlet becoming spinescent after the flowers have fallen. Bract adnate to calyx tube and minute pedicel if present, lowermost 1.4-2.4 x 0.8-1.3 mm, ovate or oblong-ovate, obtuse to subacute, concave, thick-textured, hairs up to 0.1-0.2 mm long on margins, up to 0.1 mm on back in lower part together with minute globose glands. Pedicels, when present, up to c. 0.1 mm long. Calyx 1-2 mm long, obliquely campanulate, irregularly 3-5(-6)-lobed, 2 anticous lobes the largest, hairs up to 0.1-0.2 mm long on margins, shorter on outside of calyx together with minute globose glands. Corolla tube 1.3-2.4 mm long, broadly funnel-shaped, limb 2-4 mm across lateral lobes (female flowers not uncommon, then corolla much smaller), anticous lobe 1-2 x 0.7-1.4 mm, posticous lip smaller, entire to retuse or distinctly bilobed, lobes elliptic or oblong-elliptic, white to shades of mauve. Stamens: posticous filaments 1-1.8 mm long, anticous filaments 1.4-2 mm, all anthers well exerted. Stigma and style c. 1.8-4 mm long, style glabrous. Ovary c. 0.4 x 0.4 mm. Cocci c. 1.2-1.5 x 0.8-1 mm, red-brown, smooth or slightly rugulose.
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Twiggy, divaricately branched, sometimes lax, minutely puberulous shrublet, up to 0.8-1 m tall, with pale bark. Leaves tufted, linear-oblong, sometimes glabrescent, primary leaf strongly reflexed. Flowers in small, rounded clusters, axes of inflorescences becoming spine-tipped, white to violet, calyx 3-5(6)-lobed.
Twiggy, divaricately branched, sometimes lax, minutely puberulous shrublet to 60 cm, with pale bark. Leaves tufted, linear-oblong, sometimes glabrescent, primary leaf much larger and strongly reflexed. Flowers in small, rounded clusters, axes becoming spiny, white to violet.
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