Aerial parasitic shrub to 7 cm high, much-branched with 1 or 2 stems arising from a haustorium attached to a host plant's upper branches. Stems greenish yellow, erect, with numerous internodes; basal internodes terete or slightly compressed, linear, 5–7 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, and succeeded by shorter nodes 1–5 long, 1–1.5 mm wide, venation obscure. Rudimentary leaves opposite, distichous, each pair united and encircling the node, 0.5–1 mm long, much broader than long, shortly ciliate; apex acute. Hairs of floral cushion few, c. 0.5 mm long, white to brown, multicellular, visible at flowering time. Flowers greenish, produced at every actively growing node, mostly in a single row, sometimes with a second row below the first, each row with a triad in the axil of each leaf, a male flower in centre of triad and a female flower on each side. Male flower globose, c. 0.5 mm diam., with a short stipe; tepals 3, triangular, c. 0.5 mm long; anthers 3, 2-locular, united into a synandrium with a common apical pore. Female flowers ellipsoid, 1–1.5 × c. 0.5 mm; tepals 3, c. 0.5 mm long, persistent at the top of the ovary; style short, c. 0.25 mm long.
Parasitic on Melaleuca lanceolata, which forms an open tall shrubland fringing a brackish lake; soil a white sandy clay (Cranfield 2002: 363); Melaleuca lanceolata woodland on saline flats surrounding small saline lake (Thiele 4745).
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