dwarf, decumbent, 6–12 in. high; stem stout and woody, 2 1/2–3 1/2 lin. in diam. at the base; branches many, much-spreading, glabrous, red when young; leaves 3-nate, erect, adpressed, about equalling the internodes, oblong or elliptical, blunt, sulcate, ciliate, glabrous, glossy, thick, 1/2– 3/4 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, not numerous; pedicels at length deflexed, slender, under 1 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals from ovate to lanceolate, connate at the base, foliaceous, keeled, about 1/2 lin. long; corolla tubular-campanulate, distinctly widened at the mouth, 1 1/2 lin. long, glabrous, white; segments spreading, rounded, about 1/8 the length of the tube; anthers subexserted (possibly at length exserted), subterminal, longitudinally semiobovate, nearly 1/2 lin. long, dark-coloured, decurrent-aristate at the base; pore 1/3 the length of the cell; awns rough, with only a short free tooth-like point; style exserted, slender, straight; stigma small, capitellate or subsimple; ovary glabrous. null
