Stems greenish brown or strongly suffused with red, 1-4 cm × 0.5 mm or less; proximal nodes 1-3 mm apart, internodes zigzag, distal nodes 5-10 mm apart. Leaf blades 3-4 mm, margins somewhat involute. Inflorescence bracts connate, strongly red or purple tinged, keeled, triangular, 2.5-3.5 mm, apex acute. Flowers funnelform-campanulate, 3-4 mm; sepal lobes ± erect to slightly spreading, subequal; ovary greenish, ca. 3 mm, apex narrow at anthesis, minutely glandular-toothed or retuse. Capsules opening along 3 wirelike valve margins. Seeds 0.3-0.5 mm.
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