Plants with many stems from base; branches ascending; leaves mostly in whorls of six, 3-5 mm long; flowers yellowish-green; first inflorescence internodes (beyond primary stem axis) about 8 mm long; fruits papillate.
Prickles opposite stipules and along back side of leaves; leaves glabrous, adaxially lustrous; styles connate, exserted 5-6 mm; stipule margins fringed; leaflets 7, terminal one leathery; petals doubled, pedicels about 25 mm long, flowers rose-purple; sepals reflexed.
Large, dense clusters of flowers on stems to 100+ cm tall; corollas pubescent on outer surface; leaves abaxially glabrous, adaxially with long hairs on midvein, blades 5.2 - 7.0 cm long x 1.2-1.8 cm wide with margins revolute; sepals 1.2-1.7 mm long and narrowly triangular; 100+ flowers per inflorescence.
Leaf margins smooth to slightly wavy; calyx tube 3.5 mm long; flowers avg. 15 mm long.