Shrubs up to 0.7 m tall, erect, slender, single-stemmed at base. Branches erect, slender, glabrous, fairly smooth, dichotomous. Branchlets erect, very slender, puberulous, densely clothed with leaves. Leaves about 5 mm long, 1 mm broad, lanceolate, glabrous, adpressed, clasping, erect, sessile, somewhat decurrent, normally alternate; apex sub-acute, callused; margins narrowly translucent, ciliolate at first; adaxially concave with waxy glands; abaxially convex, gland-dotted. Inflorescence terminal, 4-aggregate, sessile. Bract 2.3 mm long, 1.3 mm broad, broadly lanceolate, glabrous; apex with a blunt callus; margins ciliolate, translucent; adaxially sparsely pubescent. Bracteoles two, 2 mm long, 0.8 mm broad, asymmetrically lanceolate, glabrous; apex callused; margins densely ciliolate, translucent; adaxially pubescent. Calyx lobes five, 2,3 mm long, 1.7 mm broad, ovate, glabrous, apex thickened, obtuse; margins broadly translucent, ciliolate; adaxially pubescent. Petals five, 3.3 mm long; limb 1.2 mm broad; claw 0.8 mm broad, very densely bearded above and on the upper part of the midrib, ciliate above. Staminodes five, 0.4 mm long, clavate. Filaments five, becoming 2 mm long and carrying the spent anthers outside the petals, glabrous. Anthers five, 1 mm long, 0,5 mm broad, yellow; apical gland globose 0,1 mm diam. Pollen 43 µ, long, 22 µ, broad, oblong. Disc closes over the ovary, exudes nectar. Stigma 0.3 mm diam., capitellate. Style becoming 2 mm long, glabrous, erect, persisting. Ovary 4-carpellate, 0.5 mm diam., glabrous. Fruit 4-carpellate, 6 mm long, 4 mm diam., glabrous; horns 1.5 mm long, emarginate, erect. Seed 4-4.5 mm long, 1.5 mm broad, black, shining.
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