A shrub. It grows 1 m tall and is partly parasitic on other plants. The leaves are narrowly sword shaped. They are 7-8 cm long. The flowers occur singly. They are white.
Erect, nearly leafless, hemiparasitic shrub to 1 m. Leaves lanceolate to linear, flat and fleshy. Flowers 1-3 in bract axils, in elongate racemes, whitish.