Rather rigid, spreading, flat-topped or rounded shrub 15-30 cm. high or more; stems stout, branches mostly arching and branched only on upper side. Ultimate branchlets ∞ and close-set, 1·5-2 mm. diam., slightly tetragonous, olive-green below and ochre-coloured at tips, us. glossy; internodes 1·5-2-(2.5) mm. long, partly exposed; nodal joint obscure except in older stems. Lvs 1-(1·5) mm. long, connate up to c. ⅓length, ± deltoid, thick, strongly concavo-convex, appressed or slightly spreading, keeled and projecting on back, narrowed to ± keeled, subacute or obtuse, convex, incurved tip. Spikes up to c. 10-fld. Bracts c. 1·5 mm. long, ovate, keeled and ± subacute or obtuse. Calyx 2-2.5 mm. long, anterior lobes fused into a single obtuse or slightly emarginate ovate-oblong seg., sts shortly secondarily split. Corolla-tube = or > calyx, as broad as long. Capsule 3-3·5 mm. long, oval or narrow-oval, obtuse or subacute, > calyx.

2n = 124