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Dwarf shrub, hemiparasite, 0.05-0.15 m high; rootstock slender, branched; stems many, arcuate-ascending, pubescence of short, straight, bulbous-based hairs with obtuse apices. Leaves linear, apices with white, sharp points. Inflorescences with solitary flowers in axils of bracts on short peduncles, arranged in racemes. Bracts adnate to peduncles, leaf-like. Flowers yellowish. Perianth with conspicuous external glands; tube ± 1 mm long; segments 2 mm long, hooded. Flowering time Oct.-Jan.? Fruit with stalk 5-ribbed, ± 1 mm long; broadly ellipsoid ± 6 mm long, including persistent calyx; 10-ribbed, reticulate between ribs.
Dwarf shrub, 0.05-0.15 m high; hairy, without spines. Stems many, arcuate-ascending; densely puberulous. Leaves linear, apex sharp, whitish, acute, cartilaginous. Flowers: solitary in axils of bracts on short peduncles, in racemes; bracts leaf-like; perianth not bearded, with conspicuous external glands, tube ± 1 mm long, segments 2 mm long, hooded, brownish yellow; Oct.-Dec. Fruit broadly ellipsoid, ± 6 mm long, ribbed, reticulate between ribs.
Small, densely puberulous herb up to 100 mm tall. Leaves linear, with very acute cartilaginous apex. Flowers solitary in axils of bracts; brownish yellow.
