Sepals 8–11 x 3–4 mm., oblong, emarginate or truncate at the apex, purplish, dorsally scaly-setose at the apex; intersepalar segments 2·5 x l·5 mm., oblong, slightly dilated and setose near the apex.
Fructiferous receptacle c. 10 x 8 mm., ovoid-cylindric. Capsule c. 8 x 6 mm., setose on the upper half, and with a crown of white fringed-pectinate scales around the insertion of the style.
Flowers 5-merous, in terminal somewhat lax panicles; bracts 8–9 x 6–7 mm., ovate, obtuse, scaly outside, caducous; pedicels c. 1 mm. long.
Receptacle c. 8 x 5 mm., cylindric-campanulate, covered with very short appendages pectinate-setose at the apex.
Branches terete, covered with very appressed scales up to 1·5 mm. long.
Seeds c. 0·75 mm. long, minutely papillose-tuberculate.
A perennial herb or shrub up to c. 2 m. high.