Terrestrial or semi-aquatic, growing in dense cushions. Stems very short, very much branched, creeping or decumbent with erect branches or erect, after anthesis sympodially branched, with very short internodes, 0.3-1 mm. Leaves opposite, linear to subulate, entire, with a dark thickening on apex above, erecto-patent, ± fleshy, 2-6 by 0.3-½ mm. Flowers solitary in the leaf-axils of very short (5-10 mm long), strictly unisexual branches which are later sympodially overtopped, each bearing only (1-)2(-3) developed flowers and often besides 2-4 deficient higher flowerbuds. ♂ Flowers: stalked, stalk ¼-½ by c. ½ mm, erect. Bracteoles oblong, obtuse, finely mucronate, 1 by 0.3 mm. Sepals 0. Petals with wide base and rounded, nearly flat, finely serrate apex, 1-1½ mm long, rose to red. Stamens 8, filaments up to 1 mm; anthers elliptic, mucronate, 1-1½ by 0.4-½ mm. Rudiment of ovary 0. ♀ Flowers: up to 0.2 mm stalked. Bracteoles very small, narrowly triangular, 0.2-0.4 by 0.2 mm. Sepals 0. Petals 0. Styles 0.2 by 0.3 mm. Fruit truncate above, shallowly 4-lobed, puncticulate, c. 1 by 1 mm.
In and along very shallow, boggy, partly dried up pools in alpine grassland, growing in dense cushions, c. 3500-3700 m.
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