Low shrub 10-25 cm. tall; stems decumbent or erect, often bare below and densely branched at tip. Ultimate branchlets, ∞ close-set, spreading, 1-3 cm. long, 2-2.5 mm. diam., ± tetragonous, not or scarcely glossy; internodes 1-1*5-(2) mm. long, often partly exposed; nodal joint well-marked. Lvs 1*5-2-(2*5) mm. long, connate for ? to 1/2 length, ovate- deltoid, thick, strongly concavo-convex, tip ± subacute, slightly keeled, appressed or ± spreading, at least when dry. Spikes c. 1 cm. long, c. 8-fld. Bracts c. 2 mm. long, ovate, subacute, ± keeled. Calyx 2-2∙5 mm. long, anterior lobes ovate-oblong, subacute, slightly ribbed, free up to ⅔ length. Corolla-tube = or > calyx. Mature capsules not seen.