A glabrous perennial rooting at the nodes; the nodes with scaly and opposite leaves. Stem (s) leafy, prostrate to ascending. Leaves ± fleshy, 5-12 x 2.5-5.5 mm, elliptic-oblong to ovate-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, pale green, sessile, uppermost smaller, crowded, often glandular-punctate, margin whitish. Flowers axillary solitary, barely exserted from the subtending leaf, lilac or pink, subsessile; pedicel 1-1.5 mm long. Calyx cupular, 3.5-4.5 mm long, petaloid; limb 5-6 mm broad; lobes obtuse, ± 2 mm long, sub-orbicular, margin hyaline. Stamens included; filament 2-2.5 mm long, anther oblong, base subcordate. Carpel ± equalling the calyx. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style ± 2.5 mm long, slightly recurved at anthesis, stigma obscure or sub-capitate. Capsule globose, 2.5-3 mm broad, acute at one end. Seeds trigonal, c. 1.2 mm long, minutely reticulate, reddish-brown.