Dense prickly shrub 0.6-1.0 (-1.8) m tall. Branchlets wiry, subterete, slightly flexuose, subsericeous to glabrous. Leaves linear, 1-5 cm long, 0.8-1.3 (-1.8) mm wide, deflexed at base and often slightly twisted; upper surface convex to peaked along midline; margins refracted; lower surface enclosed except for midvein, 2-grooved. Conflorescence terminal, erect, pedunculate, loosely regular and subumbelloid, 6-8-flowered. Flowers adaxially oriented. Flower colour: perianth off-white to silvery grey; style white to pale pink. Perianth subsericeous outside, bearded inside. Pistil 9.5-11.5 mm long; style sharply hooked near apex, with minute papilloid hairs in apical 1 mm; pollen-presenter oblique. Follicle subellipsoidal, 7-14 mm long, with faint longitudinal ridges.
Grows in open to sparse shrub associations, usually along drainage lines and gullies, in red clay-loam over green-stone.
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