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A small shrub, up to 1 ft. high; stems several, erect or suberect, woody, glabrous; branches bearing small corymbs of several flowers; leaves small and inconspicuous, linear, acute, about 1 lin. long, fleshy, concave on the upper surface, glabrous; flowers small, in small terminal branched cymes, bracts a little shorter than the flowers, ovate or oblong, acute; bracteoles very small; perianth saucer-shaped, 1 lin. long; segments triangular, 1/2 lin. long, hooded, flat, glabrous or nearly so on the margin; disc conspicuous; anthers exserted, nearly 1/4 lin. long; style 1/4 lin. long; fruits turbinate at the base, scarcely 2 lin. long, rather fleshy and scarcely ribbed.
Much-branched, hemiparasitic, sparsely leafy shrublet, up to 0.75 m high; stems angled and minutely pustulate. Leaves acicular, 2 mm long, margins decurrent. Inflorescences of few-flowered, lax, corymbose heads. Bracts leaf-like, often widely separated from flowers. Flowers whitish. Perianth tube very short; segments triangular, ± 1 mm long, deeply hooded. Disc conspicuous. Flowering time Aug.-Feb. Fruit ellipsoid-globose, ± 4 mm long, attenuate and 7-winged at base, somewhat reticulate between wings.
Much-branched, sparsely leafy, hemiparasitic shrublet to 60 cm with stems angled and minutely pustulate. Leaves small, terete. Flowers in lax corymbs, whitish.
