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Perennial. Stems decumbent or suberect, 100-250 mm long, much branched, at least younger parts densely scabrous. Leaves in whorls of 6, 1-nerved; 1.5-2.5 x 0.7-1.2 mm, ± ovate-lanceolate, with a ± long whitish mucro at apex, glabrous, shiny, margins ± reflexed. Inflorescence very reduced, flowers in groups of 3-1, subtended by 4(-1) leaf-like bracts; peduncles and pedicels 0.5-2 mm long, filiform, glabrous, divaricate after anthesis. Flowers: corolla 1.5-2 mm in diam., yellowish, lobes much longer than wide, shortly acuminate; stamens c. half as long as lobes; ovary c. 0.2-0.4 mm long. Fruit glabrous, ± wrinkled; mericarps subglobose, each c. 1 mm in diam.
Sprawling, roughly hairy perennial to 25 cm. Leaves in whorls of 6, ericoid, almost granular (1.5-2.5 mm long). Flowers 1-3 in axils, anthers exserted, yellowish.
