Glabrous perennial to 70 cm high. Stems erect or ascending, rarely branched above. Leaves narrowly obovate to obovate or narrowly elliptic, the largest 1.6-7.5 mm wide, those at base sometimes reduced to scales. Inflorescence cylindrical, spike-like; flowers 1-5 in several-bracted clusters, subsessile; bracts ovate, shallowly erose to entire. Hypanthium 0.4-0.7 mm long. Sepals 0.5-0.8 mm long, entire to undulate. Corolla pale green to deep yellow, rarely tinged red-brown outside; tube 2.2-3.5 mm long; lobes 1.5-3 mm long, obtuse to acuminate. Gynoecium 3-partite. Cocci 1-3, broadly ovoid to broadly ellipsoidal, 1.5-3 mm long, rugose to rugose-reticulate, sometimes obtusely tuberculate at apex; basal cavity very shallow.
Grows in shallow soil among rocks, rarely in clay, in sclerophyllous forest and woodland, on open rocky hillsides and in open sandy country, less commonly in swamps.
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