Small shrub; stems simple, with short, spreading or retrorse hairs. Leaves sessile, linear, 2–5 mm long, clustered at nodes, puberulous; upper surface sometimes encrusted; margins recurved covering midrib; sheath ciliate, puberulous outside. Flowers in dense dichasia; bracts similar to leaves; bracteoles sessile and attached to sheath or shortly petiolate and free or adnate to inside of sheath. Calyx 3.5–4.7 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, puberulous. Petals 5, 6–8 mm long. Stamens 6. Style 3–branched; stigmas linear. Ovules 5–7 on each of 3 parietal placentas. Seed papillose.
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