Small decumbent to ascending shrub, mostly 30-100 cm tall. Stems not or slightly striate, terete; flowering branchlets 1-1.5 mm diam. Leaves triangular-subulate, appressed to slightly spreading, 0.5-1 (rarely to 2) mm long. Flowers solitary; bracts similar to vegetative leaves, spreading to horizontal; pedicels c. 0.5 mm long with 8-10 bracteoles, 4 of which are involucral. Flowers cylindrical. Tepals c. 1 mm long and 0.75 mm wide, white to cream, mostly tightly appressed when dry. Stamens with posterior hair-like appendages; anther lobes approximately equal. Drupe globose, 4-5 mm long.
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