Compact twiggy shrub 0.2-1.6 m high. Stems thick, woody and sometimes becoming spinescent, glabrous or pubescent. Bark grey, cracked and furrowed. Young shoots woody or herbaceous. Leaves glabrous, pubescent with anvil-shaped hairs, or densely and minutely puberulous, broadly ovate to obovate, 4-16 x 1.5-10.0 mm, apex obtuse to broadly cuneate, base obtuse to broadly cuneate, thick-textured; petiole short or absent. Inflorescence of cymes each reduced to a single pedunculate axillary flower. Peduncles stiff, 2.5-10.0 mm long. Bract absent. Bracteoles 2, puberulous, broadly ovate, 1-4 mm long, often joined at base across peduncle. Calyx densely pubescent, puberulous or glabrous, inside may have long hairs and glands. Corolla 10—17(—21) mm long, hooded, white to cream with mauve markings. Pollen 2-colporate, 45-61 urn long, sexine areolate. Capsule 1-seeded, clavate, hard in texture, up to 19 mm long, shiny, glabrous.