A small erect shrub, 1-2 ft. high, much-branched; branches erect, leafy, finely pustulate, glabrous; leaves erect-patent, linear, with subacute, blackish tips, 2-4 1/2 lin. long, concave above, keeled below, finely pustulate; inflorescence terminal or subterminal, of cymose 4-5-flowered umbellules; bracts and bracteoles subspathulate, keeled, longer than the flowers, margins slightly membranous; perianth 1-1 1/2 lin. long; segments 1/2-3/4 lin. long, ovate-triangular, obtuse, deeply hooded, with incurved wavy margins; anthers exserted and situated under the hood, about 1/7 lin, long; disc conspicuous; style 1/3-1/2 lin. long; fruit subglobose, capped by the persistent perianth, 2 1/2 lin. long, 1 2/3 lin. in diam., 5-winged towards the base, smooth between the wings.
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Densely leafy, hemiparasitic shrub to 1 m, with brittle, pustulate branches. Leaves linear, with brackish, subacute tips, finely pustulate. Flowers in small, terminal, cymose clusters, whitish.
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