Erect much-branched shrub to c. 1 m. tall. Ultimate branchlets 1·5-2 mm. diam., ± terete, yellow-green, not glossy; internodes 1-1·5 mm. long, partly exposed; nodal joint weakly marked or obscure. Lvs c. 1 mm. long, connate for ⅓ to ⅔ length, smoothly appressed when fresh, us. spreading widely and encircling branchlet when dry, apex truncate or rounded, abruptly tapering to slightly keeled acute tip, margins yellowish. Spikes c. 2-6 fld. Bracts 1-1·5 mm. long, obtuse or with small acute tip. Calyx 2-2.5 mm. long, anterior lobes completely fused into broad obtuse seg. sts with short secondary split. Corolla-tube ± = calyx. Capsule 3-3·5 × 1·5-2 mm., oval, subacute to obtuse, > calyx.

2n = 84

2n = 124