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A sparsely-branched straggling herb, to c. 1 m high; branches slender, woody, minutely pubescent.Leaves subsessile; petiole flattened, to c. 1 mm long, pubescent; lamina reflexed, 2–10 × 1–2 mm, linear-lanceolate, minutely apiculate at the apex, rounded at the base, with margins entire and revolute.Cymes axillary and terminal, 4–8 clustered in pseudumbels at the branch apices, with primary rays to 1 cm long, each 1–2-forked, pubescent.Bracts sessile, to c. 4 × 3 mm, ovate, yellow.Cyathia c. 2 × 3 mm, with cup-shaped involucres; glands 4, spreading, c. 1 × 1.5 mm, transversely elliptic to ± crescent-shaped or occasionally with 2 minute horns; lobes 0.5 mm long, quadrangular, apex minutely 2-toothed, margin ciliolate.Male flowers: bracteoles laciniate, pubescent; stamens 2.3 mm long.Female flower: ovary glabrous; styles 1.2 mm long, joined at the base, with spreading bifid apices.Capsule exserted on a reflexed pedicel to 4.5 mm long, c. 3 × 3 mm, deeply 3-lobed.Seeds c. 2 × 1.3 mm, ovoid, smooth, shiny black; caruncle 0.6 mm across.