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Perennial herb, 0.1-0.3 m high; glabrous, without spines. Stems slender, trailing; branches straggling, sparsely leafy. Leaves linear, up to 22 mm long, apex acute, cartilaginous, glabrous. Flowers: solitary, subtended by a bract and bracteoles; bracts adnate to peduncle, equalling or up to twice as long as flower, linear, glabrous; perianth with prominent tube, not bearded, ± 2.5 mm long, glabrous, segments narrowly linear-ovate, 1 mm long, hooded, margins incurved, white; Dec. Fruit oblong-ellipsoid, ± 4 mm long, prominently ribbed, reticulate between ribs.
Hemiparasitic, dwarf shrub, 0.1-0.3 m high; stems and branches slender, trailing. Leaves linear, up to 22 mm long, apices acute. Bracts leaf-like, adnate to peduncle, up to base of flower. Flowers subsolitary, white. Perianth ± 2.5 mm long; segments linear-lanceolate, 1 mm long, hooded, margins incurved. Flowering time Dec.? Fruit oblong-ellipsoid, ± 4 mm long, including persistent perianth; 10-ribbed, reticulate between ribs.
