Scandent to procumbent, much-branched glabrous perennial to 1 m high. Leaves reduced to scales. Inflorescence a terminal umbelliform cluster; flowers subsessile to shortly pedicellate; bracts with hyaline erose margins, mucronate. Hypanthium 0.7-3 mm long. Sepals ovate, 2.5-3.2 mm long, shallowly erose, mucronate. Corolla yellow; tube 4-6.5 mm long; lobes 2.3-4 mm long, acuminate. Gynoecium 3-partite. Cocci 1-3, ellipsoidal, 3-3.5 mm long, shallowly reticulate, puberulent, with prominent projection of bony endocarp at base; basal cavity absent.
Grows in shallow sandy soil on limestone within or between spinifex clumps in low hummock grassland and, in the Range, along creek-lines.
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