Perennials usually with short erect or decumbent branches up to 0,25 m long, each with a terminal rosette of leaves, with branches usually slightly woody, with old leaves usually not deciduous. Leaves obo-vate, rarely oblanceolate, 20-50(-70) mm long, usually rounded, dorsiventrally comÂpressed and slightly convex on both surÂfaces, covered with spreading hairs, rarely glabrous, with cilia becoming shorter toÂwards base of leaf, green, grey-green to greyish brown. Inflorescence usually a flat-topped thyrse with a number of dense dicha-sia, with peduncle (0,02-)0,04~0,l(-0,12) m long. Calyx: lobes oblong-triangular, 1,5-2,5 mm long, usually bluntly acute, glaÂbrous or covered with spreading hairs and/or marginal cilia, fleshy, green. Corolla tubular, fused basally for 0,6-0,8 mm, white becoming cream and often tinged pink in bud; lobes oblong to oblong-oblanceolate, 3-5 mm long, acute and with more or less distinct dorsal appendage, recurved. StaÂmens with yellow to brown anthers. SquaÂmae oblong to almost square, 0,4-0,8 X 0,2-0,5 mm, somewhat constricted towards base, truncate to slightly emarginate, fleshy, yellow, rarely white.
