Sprawling herb, base woody, stems to 20 cm long, branching mainly from base; glabrous throughout. Leaves linear to oblanceolate, 7–16 x 0.5–1.5(–3) mm, tip acute to obtuse. Cymes very lax, variably dichasial and monochasial with flowers tending to cluster at tips; bracts ovate, up to c. 1.3 mm long, obtuse, scarious except for thickened midrib; pedicels up to 2 mm long. Sepals elliptic-ovate, c. 2.5 x 1 mm, outer slightly smaller, obtuse, scarious margins sharply delineated from green centre. Petals ovate-oblong, base attenuated into claw, white, up to as long as sepals. Stamens 5, half as long as sepals. Style c. 0.7 mm long. Capsule subglobose, shorter than sepals, valve margins not thickened, tip recurved. Seeds many, curved-ovoid, hilum terminal, minutely papillate, c. 0.45 mm long.
