A small shrub, 9 in. high; stems ascending, densely leafy, rather slender, terete, scabrid-puberulous; leaves numerous, imbricate, acicular, flattened on the upper surface, acutely mucronate, 2 1/2-3 lin. long, 1/4 lin. thick, fleshy, glabrous; flowers very small, in dense terminal heads 2 1/2-4 lin. in diam.; bracts as long as or longer than the flowers, linear or linear-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, 1 1/4 lin. long, with slightly hyaline margins; bracteoles similar to the bracts but a little shorter; perianth 4/5 lin. long, with external glands; segments 1/2-2/3 lin. long, linear-lanceolate, subacute, bearded at the apex; anthers 1/8 lin. long, included in the perianth-tube; stigma sessile; fruits oblong-ellipsoid, 2 lin. long, distinctly but rather finely 10-ribbed, laxly reticulate between the ribs.
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