Erect or virgate shrub to 80 cm tall, white-tomentose when young, glabrescent. Leaves cauline, ±fasciculate, linear, entire, thick; lamina 5-20 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide. Flowers in spreading racemes or thyrses 4-12 cm long; scape slender; bracts linear, to 5 mm long; peduncle to 2 cm long; bracteoles linear, to 2 mm long; pedicel to 12 mm long. Sepals linear, 4-6 mm long. Corolla 9-11 mm long; lobes unequal, abaxial to 7 mm long; wings c. 1 mm wide. Ovary with septum 1/2 its length; ovules 12-16; style with stiff, white hairs and minute, glandular hairs. Fruit an elliptic capsule, 5-6 mm long. Seeds elliptic, c. 1 mm long.
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