Finely, densely branched shrub forming a symmetrically rounded bush 1-1·5-(2) m. tall and 1·5-2-(2.5) m. diam. Ultimate branchlets very close-set, erect, ± 1 mm. diam., flexible, ± glaucous but sts yellowish and glutinous at tips; internodes 2-4 mm. long, exposed; nodal joint obvious. Lvs 1-1·5 mm. long, scarcely connate, narrowly triangular, subacute to acute, rounded on back, fleshy and appressed when fresh, slightly spreading when dry. Infls c. 6-8-fld; fls all sessile or the lower ones subsessile, us. not tightly crowded; rhachis glab.; bracts similar to lvs. Calyx 1-1·5 mm. long; anterior lobes subacute, fused for all or most of length; posterior lobes entirely fused into single obtuse or emarginate seg. Corolla-tube slightly > calyx. Capsule c. 2 × 1 mm., narrow-oblong, somewhat laterally compressed with septum across narrowest diam. but also flattened on narrow-obovate anterior and posterior faces, grooved at septum and emarginate at apex.

2n = 42

n = 21

n = 21