Erect or ascending shrub to 80 cm tall, glabrous except for copious axillary wool. Leaves cauline, fasciculate, linear-terete, entire, thick; lamina mostly c. 2 mm long but main stem leaves to 5 mm long, to 0.5 mm wide. Inflorescence a spike or spike-like thyrse, to 12 cm long; bracts ±flattened, to 0.7 mm long, not exceeding sepals; bracteoles deltoid, 0.5 mm long. Sepals deltoid, 0.5-0.7 mm long. Corolla 4-5.5 mm long; lobes equal, 1.5-2.5 mm long, wings to 0.3 mm wide. Ovary with septum obsolete; ovule solitary; style with stiff, purplish hairs and minute, glandular hairs. Fruit a nut, subglobular, c. 1 mm diam. Seeds elliptic, c. 0.6 mm long.
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