Glabrous broom-like perennial to 60 cm. Stems ascending, branched above. Leaves reduced to scales. Inflorescence a lax one-sided spike; flowers arranged singly or in pairs, rarely 4 together, subsessile to shortly pedicellate; bracts 3-6 at each node, ovate, entire or serrulate. Hypanthium 0.8-1.2 mm long. Sepals 1-2 mm long, light green to dark brown, entire or serrulate. Corolla greenish-yellow to mid or dark yellow or brown; tube 1.8-4.2 mm long; lobes 1.5-3.8 mm long. Gynoecium 3-partite. Cocci 1-3, obloid-ellipsoidal, 2.5-4 mm long, deeply rugose to densely tuberculate, with two lips of bony endocarp at base.
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