Erect to decumbent shrubs, 20-100 cm tall. Hairs greyish, appressed to antrorsely spreading. Young branchlets moderately to densely hairy. Leaves linear, 1.5-5 cm long, 0.9-1.2 mm wide, concave or semiterete, with 3 prominent, parallel veins on undersurface, spreading to suberect, straight, twisted through 0-90°, pungent, not glaucous, sparsely to moderately hairy when immature, glabrescent, smooth. Inflorescence anauxotelic or auxotelic, 1-3-flowered; rachis 0-1 mm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves and leaves; pedicels 2.5-12 mm long, erect, glabrous; tepals 8-11 mm long, acute to acuminate, glabrous on outside. Anther appendage obtuse, 1.5-2.2 mm long, recurved through 180°. Ovary glabrous.
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