Shrubs, erect, <treelike>, to 40 dm, <bark thick-corky, striate, exfoliating in thin, papery sheets or plates>. Stems: internodes 4-lined at first, soon 4-angled, then terete, <not glaucous>. Leaf blades linear-subulate, 8–25 × 0.5–0.7 mm, <not glaucous>, base articulated, parallel or slightly expanded, margins revolute, apex acute, midrib unbranched. Inflorescences <shortly cylindric>, 1–3-flowered, often with single flowers or triads from 1–2 proximal nodes. Flowers 12–15 mm diam.; sepals deciduous, not enclosing capsule, 5, linear-subulate, unequal, 5–7 × 0.5 mm, <not glaucous>; petals 5, bright yellow, oblong-spatulate, 7–9 mm; stamens deciduous, 75; ovary 3-merous; <styles 2.5–4 mm>. Capsules narrowly pyramidal-ovoid, 6 × 2.4 mm. Seeds not carinate, 0.6–0.8 mm; testa finely foveolate-reticulate.
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