Subshrub, hermaphrodite, up to 0.6(1) m in height, erect, very ramose, often intricate. Trunk promptly branched, sometimes from the base, with rigid branches, usually ending in subspinescent tips. Bark from greyish-brown to whitish. Younger branchlets greenish-whitish, smooth, shiny, glabrous. Leaves alternate (8-15 mm), linear, greenish-whitish and glabrous on both sides, promptly deciduous. Inflorescence in terminal racemes, sparse, with widely spaced flowers. Peduncle and pedicels glabrous. Calyx membranous, green, very open, almost in the shape of a star, with 5 equal lobes about 2 mm, ovate-lanceolate. Corolla with 5 fused petals, 5-7 mm, tubular-campanulate, pink-whitish or light purplish, with pronounced purple venation, with a cylindrical tube with a slightly pronounced saccule at the base and clearly bilabiate limb, with the upper lip \u00b1 patent, bipartite, and the lower lip with 3 lobules and a pronounced palate that fully closes the corolla tube. Stamens whitish-pinkish, with yellow anthers. Fruit a globose capsule, glabrous, which opens at 2 pores located at the top. Seeds with 5 longitudinal ridges dorsally and irregularly alveolate ventrally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-13431","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n