Prostrate to sprawling; branches stout, up to c. 5 dm. long, bark reddish brown to greyish; branchlets densely lfy, ascending at tips, bark reddish brown. Lvs crowded, erecto-patent, coriac.; sheaths ± 5-10 × 4-8 mm., rather abruptly narrowed into glab., glaucous lamina ± 20-35-(50) × (3)-4-5 mm., gradually narrowing to acuminate pungent tip; margins very minutely serrulate. Fls 6-9 mm. long, on lateral branchlets, shortly peduncled; bracts few, > fls. Sepals ovate, acuminate, persistent, ciliolate, < corolla-tube, which is ± 5 mm. long with ovate-triangular, acute lobes; anthers included. Capsule c. 3 mm. long, broadly obovoid.
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