Perennial shrublets up to 0,5 m high, usually much branched, with old leaves usuÂally deciduous. Leaves ovate to lanceolate, (3-)5-15 x (2-)3-10(-13) mm, obtuse or rounded, flat or concave above, usually strongly convex below, glabrous, glaucous green to reddish brown to purple in parts and with red or yellow horny margin. InfloÂrescence a rounded thyrse, with peduncle up to 20 mm long and partly hidden by upper leaves, with spreading bracts at least 3 mm long at base of inflorescence. Calyx: lobes narrowly to broadly triangular, c. 1 mm long, pointed, glabrous, fleshy, glaucous-green often tinged red. Corolla tubular, fused basally for 0,4-0,6 mm, white and more or less tinged pink or red. Stamens with brown anthers. Squamae oblong to square, 0,4-0,9 x 0,3-0,6 mm, usually trunÂcate, rarely somewhat cuneate, fleshy yellow.
