Compact to diffuse herbaceous perennials to 30 cm high, with few to many stems arising from a single rootstock. Stems up to 4 mm across; young branchlets ±smooth or slightly striate in dried state. Leaves linear, lorate or lanceolate, 2–20 mm long, 0.6–1.2 (–1.6) mm wide, with margins entire, strongly revolute to midrib, apex acute with prominent apiculum up to 0.4 mm long or obtuse, smooth adaxially, mostly bluish green; stipules (0.6–) 1–3 mm long. Male flowers: calyx lobes ovate or ovate-elliptic, 0.7–2.2 mm long; petals ovate or oblong, 2.0–2.6 mm long, apex rounded or obtuse with a minute apiculum; staminal filaments 1.3–2.1 mm long; connective tissue 0.2–0.5 mm long; rudimentary ovary present, with 3–5 erect linear lobes 1.3–1.7 mm long. Female flowers: calyx lobes ovate to broadly ovate, 1.1–2.9 mm long; petals ovate or elliptic, 2.2–3.4 mm long; styles 2-lobed; lobes c. four-fifths the length of the style. Fruit subglobose, 2–3 mm diam., ±smooth. Seeds ovoid to globose or ellipsoid.
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