Planta fruticosa; rami (vel caules?) leviter angulati, pallide brunnei, glabri; ramuli laterales satis dense foliosi, ascendentes. Folia linearia vel lineari-acicularia, apice cartilaginea, acuta, 7-10 cm longa, subteretia vel subangularia, glabra. Flores ad ramulorum apices solitarii vel subsolitarii. Bracteae floribus longiores, lineares, foliis similes; bracteolae flores aequantes vel eis paullo longiores. Perianthium 2 mm longum, extra eglandulosum; segmenta ovato-elliptica, subacuta, 1.5 mm longa, cucullata, apice barbata. Antherae e perianthii tubo exsertae, 0.5 mm longae. Stylus 1 mm longus, ad antherarum apices attigens. Fructus ellipsoideus, basi acutus, 6 mm longus, prominenter 10-costatus, inter costas reticulatus.
Perennial herb or shrub, basal parts not seen, but stems probably tufted from a woody caudex; stems 250 mm–1 m long, up to 5–8 mm in diameter, profusely branched from the base, young parts weakly ribbed by decurrent leaves, glabrous to minutely papillose, leafy.
Leaves ascending, main ones c. 7–35 × 0.8–1.2 mm, sometimes smaller on the flowering twiglets, passing imperceptibly into bracts, linear to acicular, elliptic to round in section, apiculate, glabrous to minutely papillose all over.
Perianth possibly greenish; tube 0.8–1.4 mm long, external glands elliptic, rather obscure; lobes 1.2–1.5 × 0.6–1 mm, triangular, subacute, white-bearded from apex.
Stamens inserted at base of perianth lobes; filaments 0.3–0.5 mm long, almost or quite hidden by anthers; anthers 0.5–0.7 mm long.
Bracts 3.5–16 × 0.6–1 mm, leaf-like, adnate to very short pedicel; bracteoles 2, 2.5–7 × 0.4–1 mm.
Fruit 3–4 × 3–4 mm, light brown, strongly ribbed and reticulate, stipe 1–3 mm long, pale.
Style 0.7–1.4 mm long; stigma reaching top of perianth tube; placenta twisted.
Flowers 1–4(6) racemosely arranged at the tips of closely leafy twiglets.
Pedicels 0–1 mm long.