Perennials with erect or decumbent branches 0,15-0,2(-0,3) m high, with branches either slightly woody or carnose, usually covered with short papillae on inter-nodes, rarely with peeling to flaking bark on old stems, with old leaves usually decidu­ous. Leaves lanceolate, 8-15 X l-2(-3) mm, subulate, more or less dorsiventrally com­pressed to terete, dark green but often cov­ered with a thick bloom. Inflorescence usu­ally one flat-topped dichasium with few to many shortly pedicellate, densely clustered flowers; peduncle (15-)50-150(-180) mm, one or two pairs ot bracts without flowers. Calyx: lobes triangular, 1-2 mm long (usu­ally less than one third as long as corolla), pointed, slightly fleshy, green. Corolla tubu­lar, fused at base 0,2-0,4 mm, white to cream; lobes narrowly oblong-elliptic, 4—5(-6) mm long, bluntly acute, with dorsal ridge, with apices slightly recurved. Stamens with brown anthers. Squamae transversely oblong, 0,2-0,3 X 0,4-0,6 mm, slightly emarginate, constricted downwards, some­what fleshy, yellow.