Spreading to decumbent, multistemmed shrubs 15-100 cm tall. Bark not well-developed. Hairs greyish to tawny, mostly appressed to antrorsely spreading. Young branchlets moderately hairy. Leaves linear, 1.5-5 cm long, 0.4-0.8 mm wide, subterete, grooved underneath, slightly recurved to strongly incurved, spreading to erect, straight, innocuous, concolorous, not glaucous, moderately hairy when immature, glabrescent to moderately hairy when mature, slightly to moderately scaberulous. Inflorescence mostly auxotelic, 1-18-flowered; rachis 0-5 cm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves and leaves; pedicels 2-8 mm long, spreading to recurved, moderately hairy; tepals 7-10 mm long, acute to apiculate, moderately hairy on outside. Ovary densely covered in appressed hairs; ovules 2.
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