A rather rigid subshrub, about 30 cm high; leaves erect 3nate, shortly petiolate, imbricate or very rarely as long as the internodes, linear obtuse, very narrowly sulcate, glabrous, 0.2-0.3 cm long; flowers 3nate, spreading or erect, the pedicels pubescent, 0.5 cm long; two of the bracteoles approximate appressed, the third subapproximate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, scariose, foliaceous at the apex, 0.2 cm long; sepals like the bracteoles, 0.3 cm long; corolla tubular, somewhat oblique, slightly narrowed towards the base, a little constricted at the throat, glabrous straw-coloured, 0.9 cm long, the segments erect-recurved, crenulate on the margin, 0.15 cm, long; anthers subexserted or very rarely exserted, dorsifixed a little above the base, obliquely oblong-lanceolate, subacute brown, 0.2 cm long, the pore half us long as the cell, aristate, the awns spreading, 0.05 cm long; ovary 4-celled, somewhat obconic, glabrous, 0.2 cm long, style exserted, stigma capitate.
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