Erect shrublet with ascending branches up to 30cm. Leaves usually with axillary tufts, small, linear, pungent, ciliate below and usually with stiff hair-like prickles above; bracts larger, glabrous or finely hairy, margins with few to many, stiff wire-like hairs; flowers 1-few at branch tips, pale-blue or white, 10-15mm across,; calyx and ovary hairy.

After: Johann Franz Drege (1794-1881), German plant collector who arrived in Cape Town in 1826.