Undershrub to 60 cm high. Branchlets minutely hirsute, principally in grooves between broad decurrent leaf bases. Leaves shortly petiolate, linear to narrowly oblong or acicular, 8–12 (–25) mm long, glabrous or scabridulous, flat adaxially, prominently keeled abaxially. Flowers axillary, mostly solitary; pedicel 3–5 mm long, glabrous; bracteoles lanceolate. Sepals semiorbicular, c. 1 mm long, fleshy, glabrous. Petals valvate, ovate, c. 4 mm long, inflexed at tip, fleshy, white or with pink abaxially. Stamens: filaments semiterete, flattened towards base, rounded at apex and with a short terete tip, pilose; anthers c. 0.5 mm long including the white, rounded apiculum. Style glabrous. Cocci strongly divaricate and ±horizontal, 4–6 mm long, apiculate.
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