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Inflorescences terminal and axillary, whitish or pale mauve, spiciform-thyrsoid, the axillary pedunculate with peduncles up to 3 cm. long, the terminal solitary or paniculate by reduction of the upper leaves, c. 1.5–10 × 1.2–1.5 cm.; partial inflorescences fasciculiform, approximate or the lower separated.
Tepals 3.5–4 mm. long, oblong, acute, glabrous, with a pair of long nerves on either side of the midrib and a further outer pair of shorter nerves (the long nerves occasionally forked), the midrib excurrent in a short mucro, margins minutely lacerate-dentate above.
Bracts and bracteoles deltoid-lanceolate or deltoid-ovate, c. 2.5–3 mm. long, acute, whitish or stramineous, mucronate with the excurrent prominent midrib, the margins dentate-erose to lacerate, sometimes plicate-undulate.
Stem and branches slender, terete, striate, more or less densely furnished throughout with whitish or yellowish multicellular hairs.
Ovary 14–17-ovulate; stigmas 2, erect or flexuose, c. 0.75 mm. long, shorter than the distinct c. 1.25 mm. long style.
Filaments with the free apices equalling or shorter than the basal cup; no intermediate teeth present.
Seeds rotund-quadrate, strongly compressed, black, shiny, c. 1 mm. wide, densely sulcate-punctate.
Capsule shortly ovoid or subglobose, c. 2–2.5 mm., not exceeding the perianth.
Herb, duration and habit not known, 0.6–1 m., sparsely branched above.
