Perennial herb; low-growing with stems < 50 mm above ground. Leaves crowded; blade linear, 10-30 mm long, margins revolute; stipules hair-like or with narrow lobes at apices or margins, persistent after leaf-fall, covering stem or surrounding older leaves. Flowers: in a compound raceme; perianth segments ± 3 mm long, with broad, white margins; Dec.-Feb.
Leaves in whorls, up to 22 mm. long, linear, sometimes with a thickened margin, set with deciduous setae; stipules 1–4 mm. long, white or yellowish, often undulate, opaque, with coarse hairs at the apex, persistent after leaf-fall and surrounding the leaf-tufts.
Low-growing herb with stems less than 50 mm above ground. Leaves crowded, linear-revolute. Stipules large, persistent after leaf-fall, covering stem or surrounding older leaves. Perianth with broad, white margin.
Inflorescences slender, pedunculate, branched at nodes, the ultimate pseudo-racemose, with whorled linear bracts at nodes.
Low-growing annual with 1 to several tufts of leaves at or near ground level.
Perianth-segments 5, c. 3 mm. long, greenish with a broad white margin.
Nectariferous disk of 5 white or pink acute or subacute lobes.
Stems woody, often covered by persistent stipules.
Seeds subglobose, brown, finely granular.
Fruit as long as perianth.
Pedicels capillary.