Stems usually many from a perennial rootstock, erect, 1/2-1 1/2 ft. high, 1/2-1 lin. thick at the base, woody, simple or branching, leafy throughout or naked with prominent leaf-scars below, puberulous or glabrous; leaves alternate, scattered or crowded and somewhat imbricate, ascending, very shortly petiolate or subsessile, coriaceous, subrigid, 4-8 lin. long, 1 1/2-2 1/2 (rarely 3) lin. long, lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate or ovate, acute, with a rather pungent point, rounded at the base, glabrous on both sides; umbel terminal, 4-5 rayed, 3/4-2 in. in diam.; rays 1/2-2 in. long once or twice forked or occasionally with a series of several pairs of barren bracts, glarous; bracts 1 1/2-4 lin. long, 2-5 lin. broad, very broadly ovate or transversely elliptic-ovate, acute, with a subpungent apiculus, broadly rounded or cuneately rounded at the base, coriaceous or subrigid, glabrous, with 4 glands and 5 subquadrate or oblong slightly denticulate lobes; glands 1/3-3/4 lin. in their greater diam., somewhat crescent-shaped or narrowly transversely oblong, with a short horn at each end; capsule about 1 3/4 lin. in diam., tricoccous, glabrous, exserted about 1/2 lin. beyond the involucre on a curved pedicel; styles free, 1/2 lin. long, bifid at the apex, spreading; seeds not seen.
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Bisexual, erect, ± puberulous or glabrous herb, 0.1-0.3 m high, with often annual stems from perennial rootstock. Leaves often clustered, 6-18 x 1.5-9.0 mm, linear-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, ascending, usually with sharp tip. Cyathia in terminal 3-5-rayed umbel, 2.5-3.0 mm in diam.; glands 4, crescent-shaped, with 2 short horns on outer margins. Flowering time Dec.-Feb. Capsule 3-4 mm in diam., obtusely 3-angled, exserted for 1-2 mm.
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