Perennials with decumbent to prostrate stems up to 0,15 m long, often much branched, with fibrous roots. Leaves oblan-ceolate, rarely obovate, (30-)40-80(-110) x 20-35(-40) mm, cuneate, rounded and often mucronate, dorsiventrally flattened and with a horny margin usually restricted to the upper part, grey green and more or less covÂered with purple spots. Inflorescence a spike-like thyrse with l,2(-3)-flowered cymes, 0,2-0,35(-0,5) m long, green to purÂple; pedicels l-2(-3) mm long. Buds terete, abruptly tapering into apex, spreading. CaÂlyx 1,5-2,5 mm long, grey-green. Corolla with cylindrical tube 9-12 mm long, green and more or less tinged brown; lobes broadly triangular, 1,5-2,5 mm long, cuspiÂdate, rough and without trichomes, white to pale pink and with darker mucro. Anthers exserted. Squamae square, rarely transverÂsely oblong, 0,9-1,1 mm long and broad, emarginate, broadest at about the middle or below.
