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Flowers solitary terminating scaly or nude shoots arranged in two ways: either first shoot from each leaf (scale) on main stem scaly, thereafter fastigiately branched, the branchlets mostly with a very short (c. 1–10 mm long) scaly brachyblast arising in each axil and terminating in a flower or the branching irregularly cymose, the primary peduncle nude, subsequent branches both scaly and nude.
Perianth “creamy-green”; tube 0.6–1 mm long, external ellipsoid glands very obscure; lobes 1–1.5 × 0.4–0.7 mm, oblong-lanceolate, subacute, hood 0.3 mm long, margins inflexed, erose.
Leaves all reduced to scales, the largest subtending primary branches c. 1.2–4 × 0.8–1.2 mm, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, cuspidate, thick-textured, margins usually ciliolate.
Stamens inserted at base of perianth lobes; filaments 0.25–0.4 mm long, ± hidden by anthers; anthers 0.3–0.6 mm long.
Bracts c. 5 forming an involucre below the flower, 0.8–1.8 × 0.5–1 mm, ovate-cuspidate, margins ciliolate.
Fruit 2.5–3 × 2.5 mm, drying black, strongly ribbed and reticulate.
Style 1.2–1.7 mm long; stigma reaching ± to tip of hood.
Pedicels wanting.
