Base of plants unknown. Leaves not known. Inflorescence to c. 1 m tall; racemules straight to curved, paired or clustered at nodes of major or secondary branches, erect or ascending, to c. 30 cm long; internodes to 3 cm long; flowers solitary or paired; lower bracts linear, pungent, to c. 10 cm long; uppermost bracts ovate-attenuate, less than 2 mm long; pedicels to c. 3 mm long. Perianth 4.5–6 mm long, white to pink. Sepals narrowly elliptic. Petals elliptic to obovate, emarginate. Filaments incurving; anthers 1.1–1.2 mm long. Capsule ascending to pendulous, ± clavate to obpyriform, to 5.5 mm long. Seed 1 or 2 per fruit, 2–2.5 mm long, shallowly pitted to smooth, shiny; caruncle conical distally, the lobes ± fused. (Henderson 1987: 304). A more recent detailed description is provided by Barrett et al. (2021: 47–49), also details on distribution, phenology, habitat, conservation status and affinities.
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