Suffrutex usque ad 45 cm altus, lignosus, multo ramosus, glaber; rami 2-2.5 mm diametro, foliorum basibus decurrentibus costati. Folia sessilia, dense imbricata, anguste lineari-lanceolata, 6-8 mm longa, 1-1.5 mm lata, supra plana, infra leviter carinata, basi decurrentia, superne recurvata, luteo-viridia, margine minutissime scabrido vel laevigato. Flores solitarii in axillis bractearum in racemis spiciformibus densis dispositi. Bracteae anguste lanceo-latae, 3-3.5 mm longae, supra concavae, superne recurvatae, floribus longiores, margine minutissime scabrido vel laevigato; bracteolae bracteis angustiores et breviores, floribus longiores, superne recurvatae. Perianthium circiter 1.5 mm longum; segmenta triangulari-ovata, haud papillosa, haud vel leviter cucullata, 1 mm diametro. Filamenta brevissima; antherae e perianthii tubo exsertae, 0.25 mm longae. Discus distinctus, circiter 1 mm diametro. Stylus 0.5 mm longus. Fructus subsessilis, globosus, 2 mm crassus, costatus, perianthio diu persistente.
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Dwarf shrub, hemiparasite, 0.3-0.5 m high; stems deeply sulcate. Leaves dense near stem apices, fleshy, linear-lanceolate, up to 9 mm long. Inflorescences of dense, terminal, many-flowered spikes. Bracts slightly longer than flowers, broad, fleshy, margins microscopically serrulate. Flowers sessile. Perianth: tube up to 0.6 mm long; segments triangular. Flowering time Nov.?.
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