Stems simple or branched, grooved or angular, glabrous; branches erect or sub-erect; lower leaves erect, acicular, up to 2 1/2 in. long, acute, about 2/5 lin. thick, terete except for a narrow groove on the upper surface, glabrous; upper leaves adpressed to the stem, with spreading tips, linear-lanceolate, acute, 3-4 lin. long, concave on the upper surface, rigid, glabrous; flowers arranged in dense thick terminal cylindrical spikes3/4-2 in. long; bracts as long as or shorter than the flowers, obovate-oblanceolate, acutely acuminate, 2-3 lin. long, 1-1 1/2 lin. broad, with a black thick fleshy keel and rather membranous reddish margins, glabrous; bracteoles linear or linear-lanceolate, as long as, but much narrower than the bracts; perianth 1 1/2-2 lin. long, with a ring of hairs at the throat; segments linear-lanceolate, subacute, nearly 2 lin. long, with a stiff adpressed beard of hairs; anthers exserted from the perianth-tube, 1/3 lin. long; stigma sessile.
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A shrub. It is partly a parasite on other plants. It grows 50 cm tall. The branches are angled. The leaves are 8 cm long and 1 cm wide. They are pressed against the stems except for the tips which curve out. The flowers are in dense oblong spikes. They are whitish.
Sparsely leafy, hemiparasitic shrublet to 50 cm, with angled branches. Leaves terete, acute, adpressed with spreading tips. Flowers in dense, oblong spikes, whitish.
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