Branches slender, ascending, glabrous, ashy-grey, 4-6 in. or more long; leaves 3-nate, spreading-recurved, not crowded, linear, setaceous-acuminate, convex and sulcate below, flat above, rigid, glabrous, smooth, 2 1/2-3 1/2 lin. long; heads 5-10-flowered; pedicels 1/2-1 lin. long; bracts linear, leaf-like, a little shorter than the sepals; sepals somewhat lax, subulate, from a broad short lacerate base, acuminate, the younger gland-ciliate, about 1 1/2 lin. long; corolla broad-urceolate or sub-campanulate, only slightly constricted at the throat, glabrous, sordid yellow, nearly 2 lin. long; segments slightly spreading, rounded, overlapping at the base to the right (viewed externally), about 2/3 the length of the tube; filaments short, about equal to the ovary; anthers included, cuneate-oblong; cells deeply parted, smooth, 2/5 lin. long, aristate; pore less than 1/2 the length of the cell; awns subulate-acuminate from a broader base, about or nearly as long as the cell; style included or just manifest; stigma clavate-capitellate; ovary obovate, subconstricted at the base, glabrous.
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Erect, resprouting shrublet to 35 cm. Flowers small, cup-shaped, pale yellow.