Plants generally small, but always erect up to 30cm. Short, fat leaves, sometimes recurved, distinguish this species. Flowers are grouped in 3-nate heads and are borne at the tips of the branches, the pink urn-shaped corolla, 3-4 mm long, turns brown at an early stage; sepals and bracts are white at first, gradually turning pink and even red with age.

The leaves are like a species of the genus Azalea, a member of the Ericaceae family.