Erect, up to c. 2m. tall; branches rather slender, subfastigiate, bark blackish grey; branchlets lfy at tips only, bark reddish brown. Lvs imbricate, rigid, coriac., erect or ascending. Sheath (2)-3-4 × (1)-2-3 mm., passing by rounded to subtruncate ciliolate shoulder to linear-subulate lamina (12)-20-30 × ± 1 mm.; margins minutely serrulate, apex triquetrous, pungent. Infl. of 2-6-fld racemes 6-9 mm. long, terminal on lateral branchlets, often clustered (fls sts solitary). Bracts light-margined, persistent, broad-ovate, ciliolate, tapering to subulate tip, lower up to c. 1 cm. long. Sepals broad-ovate, acute to acuminate, slighty > corolla-tube. Corolla-tube narrow-campanulate, c, 2-3 mm. long; lobes white, broad, c. 3 mm. long, ovate-oblong, obtuse, recurved; anthers included or nearly so.

n = 13 bivalents