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Dwarf shrub, ('bisexual'), ('female'), or occasionally('bisexual') ± ('male'), ('bisexual') ± ('male'), or('male'), many-stemmed, cylindrical to ± rounded, occasionally decumbent, sometimes faintly fetid. Stems (0.1-)0.15-0.4(-0.7) m long, ± much branched (unbranched or sparsely branched in plants resprouting after fire), branches ascending to ± erect. Leaves decussate; blades (7-)10-25(-30) x 0.7-1.5(-2) mm, linear, ± erect, ericoid, semiterete to ± triangular in section, margins scabrid or with stiff whitish hairs to 0.2 mm long; stipular sheath long and funnel-shaped. Flowers mostly solitary, lateral and/or terminal on branches, ± sessile or shortly pedicellate; calyx 5(-6)-merous, lobes 3-8 mm long, lineal-lanceolate), subequal, ± erect; corolla 5(-6, rarely.7)-merous, greenish yellow, reddish brown to dark purplish brown, ('bisexual'), ('male'): tube(1-)1.5-2.5 mm long, lobes (3-)3.5-5(-5.5) x (0.7-)1-2 mm; anthers (1.5-)2-3(-4) mm long;('bisexual'): stigma always shorter, ovary sometimes smaller than in('female');('male'): small rudimentary stigma and ovary present ('female'): tube 0.5-1.5 mm long, lobes 0.5-1.5 x 0.1-0.5 mm, usually hidden between calyx lobes; stigma 1(very rarely 2), (6-)8-12(-17) mm long; ovary c. 2-4 mm long. Fruit green, turning dark grey-brown, (4-)5-7.5 x 2-3 mm, ± obovate, l-(very rarely 2)-seeded; diaspora (3-)3.5-5 x 1.5-2 mm, grey to blackish, often laterally ± compressed, ± elliptic to obovate in dorsal view, rugose to muricate.
Perennial, dwarf shrub, 0.12-0.40 m high. Leaves linear, leaf pairs distinctly connate, margins scabrid or with stiff whitish hairs, ± 0.2 mm long, stipular sheath long and funnel-shaped. Flowers: bisexual or female, mostly solitary, lateral or terminal on branches, subsessile or shortly pedicellate. Calyx 5(6)-lobed, subequal. Corolla greenish yellow to dark purplish brown. Ovary 2-4 mm long. Flowering time July-May. Fruit green turning dark grey-brown, ± 7.5 x 3 mm, obovate, 1-seeded.
Like C. scabra but stipular sheath long and funnel-shaped.
