Home
Leaves ascending-recurved to spreading, c. 7–20 × 0.5–1 mm, smaller upwards and passing into bracts, linear, apiculate, margins cartilaginous, smooth to very minutely scabridulous, scabrid projections sometimes dorsal as well and extending down the stems on the decurrent leaves, ventral surface flat, dorsal ± rounded (leaf deltoid in section).
Perianth pale yellowish-green to whitish; tube 0.5–1.2 (0.4–0.5) mm long, external glands inconspicuous; lobes 0.7–1.5 × 0.5–0.8 (0.7–0.8 × 0.4–0.6) mm, usually 5, occasionally 4 and then mixed with 5-lobed flowers, triangular, subacute, glabrous.
Bracts (lowermost) 3–12.5 × 0.4–1.1 mm, linear, leaf-like, adnate almost or quite to entire pedicel; bracteoles 2, similar to bracts but smaller.
Flowers solitary in axils of bracts, 1–6 racemosely arranged at branchlet tips, the whole forming a profusely branched panicle.
Stamens inserted at base of lobes; filaments 0.2–0.8 (0.2–0.3) mm long, clearly visible; anthers 0.25–0.5 (0.25–0.3) mm.
Fruit 1.8–2.5 × 1.7–2.5 mm, light yellowish-to red-brown, with ribs and reticulations, but these not strongly raised.
Style 0.5–1.8 (0.4–0.6) mm long; stigma reaching top of anthers.
Pedicels 0.5–3 mm long, or flowers sessile.
