Plant erect and compact, glabrous; epicortical runners absent. Leaves terete, shortly mucronate, 5-8 mm long, 1-1.5 mm diam., curved upwards. Inflorescence a pedunculate umbel of triads, the central flower sessile, the laterals pedicellate; peduncle slender, 3-7 mm long; rays of umbel 2, c. 4 mm long, not strongly divergent; pedicels c. 3 mm long; central bracts 2 mm long and narrowly cuneate or sometimes up to 4 mm long and leaf-like; lateral bracts 1 mm long, truncate, keeled. Calyx shortly toothed, 0.3 mm long. Corolla in mature bud slender, 20 mm long, 4-merous, clavate, red. Anthers 2 mm long, c. 1/2 length of free part of filament. Mature fruit not known.
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