Spreading to erect 'prickly' shrub 0.3-1.5 m tall. Branchlets angular, ridged, subsericeous between the ridges. Leaves linear to subterete or subulate, 1-3 cm long, 0.8-1.2 mm wide, rigid, pungent, often in clusters of 3-5 on suppressed lateral branchlets; upper surface smooth with venation obscure or with (3-) 5-7 longitudinal ribs; margins smoothly revolute or angularly refracted; lower surface enclosed except for midvein, 2-grooved. Conflorescence terminal or pseudo-axillary, often aggregated subterminally, erect, sessile, regular, umbelloid, many-flowered. Flowers adaxially acroscopic. Perianth subsericeous or sparsely so outside, bearded inside. Pistil 6.5-8.5 mm long; style sharply hooked in apical 2 mm, minutely hairy or papillose in apical 1 mm; pollen-presenter oblique. Follicle narrowly ovoid, 10-14 mm long, smooth to faintly warty, sometimes slightly glaucous.
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