Rigid divaricately-branched spinescent shrub to 60 cm high. Branches pubescent when young, soon becoming glabrous and black. Leaves alternate, mostly in small dense globular fascicles on the closely spaced short dwarf branches; leaves on main branches narrowly triangular, c. 2 mm long, appressed, carinate, fleshy, shortly spurred at base, sparsely pubescent when young but eventually glabrous; leaves in fascicles broadly ovate, 0.5–1 mm long. Flowers located in the leafy fascicles, subglobular, bisexual. Tepals free, broadly ovate, slightly fleshy with membranous margin c. 1.5 mm long, sparsely pubescent. Staminal filaments sparsely pubescent towards base. Ovary narrowly ovoid, silky-pubescent c. 1 mm long; styles 2 or 3, 0.5–1 mm long. Fruit depressed-spherical c. 3 mm high, mericarp crustaceous.
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