Low plant (< 30 cm high), very aromatic. Leaf lamina with veins indented above, dark shining green, often with dark brownish midrib and main veins above. Umbels rather dense; sepals oblong, dark brown inside. Bracts ± reddish-brown. Petals pink; upper 2 c. 2 x 0.7 cm, ± oblanceolate, with dark crimson patch in centre and markings of similar colour beneath surrounding a central pale band; lower 3 petals c. 1.7-0.5 cm, ± narrow oblong. Anthers deep orange-red. Stigmas crimson.