Erect, much-branched rather rigid shrub to c. 1 m. tall. Branchlets 2-3 mm. diam., us. markedly tetragonous, yellow-green; internodes 0.75-1·5 mm. long, entirely hidden, lf-tips us. strongly overlapping; nodal joint well-marked. Lvs 2-3·5 mm. long, shortly connate, deltoid to subulate, very thick, shallowly concavo-convex, narrowed into short or elongated, keeled, bluntly pointed tip, thickened and flat inside at extreme apex. Spikes up to c. 12-fld. Bracts 3-3·5 × 2-2.5 mm., ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, ribbed. Calyx 2.5-3 mm. long, anterior lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse or subacute, ribbed, free for c. ⅔ length. Corolla-tube < calyx. Capsule c. 3 × 2 mm., oval, obtuse or subacute, > calyx.