A much branched shrub, about 1 m high, with ascending, sometimes virgate, wiry branches. Branchlets slender, clothed with short, adpressed, grey pubescence. Leaves closely set, mostly 7-10 mm long, rarely up to 20 mm: lamina narrowly linear, acute or attenuate, rounded at base, erect-spreading, sometimes secund and curved, with closely revolute margins covering the lower surface; upper surface minutely tubercled, clothed with adpressed, grey pubescence, ultimately glabrous or nearly so: petiole 1-1.5 mm long. Racemes rotundate, conical or oblong, mostly dense, occasionally lax, 1-2.5 cm long. Bracts foliaceous, 4-5-5 mm long, the lower half often consisting of the lengthened petiole. Bracteoles absent. Pedicels 2-2.5 mm long, shortly pubescent. Flowers 2 mm long, clothed on the outer surface with short, adpressed, grey hairs except at the apices of the sepals where the hairs are tufted, longer and spreading: calyx-tube 0.5 mm deep, broadly cyathiform, almost filled with a pentagonal, fleshy disc: sepals deltoid-ovate, acute, about 1 mm long, with a prominent keel down the upper half. Petals inserted at the mouth of the tube, 0.5 mm long or slightly longer: lamina rotundate, concave, shortly cucullate at the apex: claw about half as long, cuneate-oblong. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary broadly obconic. Style 0.5 mm high, conical. Stigma composed of 3 rounded lobes. Fruit about 8 mm long, rotundate, puberulous or almost glabrous at maturity, chestnut-brown, with a wide, slightly convex calyx-area occupying the summit.
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Closely leafy, much-branched shrub to 1 m. Leaves linear, mostly 7-20 mm long, tomentose when young, margins closely revolute. Flowers in dense or lax racemes subtended by leafy bracts, white.
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