Closely branched woody shrub to 20 cm. tall, the branches at first prostrate, occ. rooting, ascending at tips. Branchlets glab. and shining, c. 1 cm. diam. with obviously quadrifarious lvs on; length of internodes us. < diam. Lvs imbricate to spreading, occ. deflexed, 5-7 × 3·5-5 mm., ovate-spathulate (us. rather broad trowel-shaped), very coriac. and equally glossy on both surfaces; lf-bud with open sinus, the lamina cuneately narrowed into broad "petiole" of quite similar texture; lamina subacute, slightly concave, glab. except for fine white cilia fringing thick cartilaginous entire margin; midrib forming rounded keel. Infls lateral, simple, us. only one pair in axils of lvs just behind vegetative growing point; each sessile spikelet c. 1 cm. long, with 2 sessile fls. Bracts opp., c. 3 mm. long, subacute, ciliolate. Calyx-lobes 4, each c. 5 × 2 mm., obtuse to subacute, slightly keeled, ciliolate. Corolla white, tube slightly < calyx, broad-cylindric, lobes us. 4, occ. 5, c. 4·5 × 3·5 mm., broad-ovate. Capsule erect, c. 4 × 3 mm. broadly oblong, glab., c. = calyx, the valves splitting deeply loculicidally as well as septicidally.

2n = 42