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Inflorescences of 1–many-flowered spikes 1–6.5 cm long or of many-flowered racemes up to 15 cm long, terminal on branches and branchlets, the short inflorescences being overtopped by lateral branchlets also bearing terminal inflorescences; bracts 4–5 mm long, linear-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, membranous-margined; bracteoles c. 1 mm long, subulate, puberulent.
Calyx 10–14 mm long and c. 1.4 mm in diameter, straight, puberulous outside; teeth 0.5–0.9 mm long, slightly unequal, subulate; fruiting calyx up to 3 mm in diameter, oblong-ovoid, somewhat gibbous at the base behind, yellowish, splitting nearly to the apex, plicate above, the teeth conduplicate and connivent.
Schizocarp (5)6.5–7.5 long, somewhat broader and thicker at the base, ± rounded at the apex, prominently reticulate-alveolate, shining; pit (2)3–4.5 mm long, ± half as long as the schizocarp length, with an irregularly dentate margin; the 2 mericarps not separating when ripe.
Stems up to 8 mm thick at the base, with few to many main branches from near the base; branches erect or spreading, terete or obtusely 4-angled, ± densely leafy and again branched giving the plant a bushy habit, the branchlets opposite.
Spreading, perennial herb 20–60 cm high, with a woody taproot up to 20 cm long; plant (except on corolla) puberulous, the indumentum of minute or uniformly short, erect or somewhat retrorse, stiff eglandular hairs.
Corolla cream or yellowish-green, with a slender tube abruptly expanded into a flat limb; tube 1.8–2.5 cm long and c. 0.75 mm in diameter, straight.
Ovary c. 1.4 × 0.7 mm; style c. 16 mm long.