Scrambling shrub mostly less than 1 m tall. Stems ridged. Leaves ovate, 3-7 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, tip blunt to long-pointed. Leaf stalk about 1 cm long with the leaf base often long tapering. Flowers more or less stalkless with the sepal tube about 1 cm long, 5-ribbed, covered with sticky glandular hairs and a slender corolla tube 1.5-2 cm long, white; mostly summer. Capsule 3-6 mm long.
Australia, Pacific Islands, Africa, India, Asia
Source: (1997). Plumbaginaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
