Asending undershrub to 40 cm tall, with white or yellowish, cottony hairs, glabrescent. Leaves linear, revolute, entire; lamina 1.5-5 cm long, 0.5-1.1 mm wide. Inflorescence a spike, to 10 cm long; bracts leaf-like; bracteoles linear, c. 1 mm long. Sepals ovate, 0.8-1 mm long. Corolla 4-9 mm long, densely villous inside, enations hidden, auriculate; abaxial lobes 2-4 mm long; wings c. 0.5 mm wide. Indusium oblong. Ovules 4-6. Fruit subglobular, c. 3 mm diam.; valves entire. Seeds oblong-elliptic, c. 3 mm long, yellow-brown, reticulate.
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