Compact perennial shrub to 60 cm high, pubescent. Branchlets terete. Leaves terete, sometimes semiterete at base, 3–79 mm long, 1–3 mm wide, pale green. Flowers in cymes; pedicels 6–34 mm long. Perianth segments equal in length or 2 opposite segments up to twice as long as other 2 with terete upper portions, fused for up to half their length, white inside. Stamens many, in 4 clusters alternate with perianth segments; filaments terete, papillose. Capsule with bifid valves. Seeds comma-shaped, laterally compressed, papillose, dark brown.