Habit: woody, rapidly procumbent shrub with wiry stems snaking through surrounding vegetation. Leaves clustering towards end of branches, sessile, stem-clasping, appearing linear or very narrow elliptic, 10–20 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide; margins revolute on abaxial surface parallel to ridge-raised midrib; apices acuminate with prominent mucro. Inflorescences are branched umbels with 4–8 flowers; pedicels to 3.5 mm, not nodding; vestigial basal involucre. Sepals 2–3 mm long; petals 4–5.5 mm. Stamens: filaments flared two thirds of length; anthers ovoid; pollen yellow. Pistil: ovary green, abruptly narrowing into basal nectary, almost bilocular; style mauve, curving, about same length as ovary eventually. Fruit purse-shaped, dehiscent capsules, 4.5–7 mm long, 4.5–6 mm diam., thin ‘skin’ present; seeds 1.5 mm long, 4–6 per chamber, angular-reniform, very wrinkled. Flowers mainly in late spring
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