Plant up to 50 cm. tall, appearing suffruticose but duration doubtful since the type (the only known specimen) is of secondary growth after grazing or lopping.. Stem wiry, tetragonous above and terete below, strongly striate with pale ridges, sparingly furnished with multicellular hairs, the branches divaricate-ascending, numerous.. Leaves fasciculate, thick, linear, 12.5–30 × 1–2 mm., somewhat narrowed below, abruptly narrowed at the apex, obtuse or retuse with a yellowish mucro, glabrous (with scattered multicellular hairs when very young), lower margins sometimes with distant scabridities.. Inflorescence dirty white, shortly cylindrical to subglobose, 1–2.25 × 0.8–1 cm.; axis densely white-lanate.. Bracts ± 2 mm., deltoid-ovate, hyaline and membranous with a firm, stramineous, shortly excurrent midrib, glabrous to ciliate.. Bracteoles broadly oblong, ± obtuse, 3 mm., hyaline save for the shortly excurrent midrib, glabrous.. Flowers solitary in the axils of the bracts.. Outer 2 tepals broadly elliptic-ovate, ± 4 × 2.5 mm., glabrous, evenly rounded from base to apex and broadly hyaline-margined throughout, the firm central area with 8–10 delicate lateral nerves in addition to the shortly excurrent midrib; inner 2 tepals spathulate-oblong, ± 4 × 1.75 mm., the hyaline margins much wider above, the central part with 2–4 lateral nerves; third petal intermediate in form; outer tepals in particular with the midrib and 2–4 lateral nerves finally somewhat indurate at the base, slightly sulcate between these.. Filaments filiform, ± 3 mm.; pseudo-staminodes ± 1.5 mm., spathulate, densely fimbriate around the apex.. Ovary ovoid, glabrous and delicate below, firm above, with a median lanate band.. Style slender, 3 mm. long.. Mature fruit unknown.
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