Shrub up to 1.5 m high with numerous lax whorled branches sometimes arching and rooting, ribbed, and Equisetum -like. Leaves usually totally absent, if present up to 7 in a whorl, obovate, 1–2 cm long, ± 1 cm broad, or very small. Flowers in 1–2(–3)-flowered fascicles and slender peduncles. Corolla scarlet, tubular, slightly saccate, up to 2.5 cm long. Capsule broadly ovoid, beaked by persistent style.
Distribution
KENYA Nairobi City Park, Sangai 414!TANZANIA Uzaramo District Dar es Salaam, Ruffo 1062!TANZANIA Lushoto District Amani, 12 Aug. 1932, Geilinger s.n.!
Notes
Frequently cultivated as a garden ornamental; occasionally escaping and naturalizing by roadsides.