Plant prostrate-ascending. Stem (4-) 7-17 cm, glabrous to glandulose, especially the young shoots, simple or branched from the base. Leaves alternate and opposite, elliptic or elliptic-ovate, subspathulate, 14-25 x 6-9 mm, subacute, cuneate, decurrent, glandular-punctate, margin crisp; petiole shorter or almost equalling the lamina, minutely and sparsely glandulose. Flowers in short terminal corymbs, rose-red. Bract linear-subulate, obtuse, 3.5-5.5 mm long; pedicel shorter or equalling the lamina, minutely and sparsely glandulose. Calyx 5 mm long, 2/3 rd cleft; lobes lanceolate, 4-4.5 mm long, apiculate, glandular streaked, margin crisp. Corolla 6-6.2 mm long; lobes oblong-lanceolate, c. 4.6 mm long, apex subentire to more or less toothed. Stamens included; filaments shorter or equalling the corolla, 3.2-6.2 mm long; anthers 1-1.2 mm long, obtuse, glandular, sometimes sub exserted. Ovary ovaloid to subglobose, c. 1.2 mm broad, glabrous; style shorter or equalling the corolla, 4-4.5 mm long, slender, persistent; stigma subcapitate. Capsule globose, c. 3.6 mm broad. Seeds c. 1 mm long, trigonal, broad margined.