Subshrub or small shrub that can reach up to 0.5 m in height, with green herbaceous parts that blacken slightly when dry. Stems decumbent-ascending, lignified and very ramose from the base, with branches from the current year whitish, somewhat pubescent, erect. Leaves alternate, tightly arranged or in dense axillary fascicles, subcylindrical, with pronounced angles (keeled), long, 8 to 20 mm, acute and apiculate at the apex. Flowers 1(2) in the leaf axils with 2 scarious bracteoles, oval, acuminate; hermaphrodite flowers with 5 subcucullate sepals, keeled, fused 1\/3 of its length, 5 stamens shorter than the perianth, ovary subconical with 3 stigmas shortly subulate; female flowers, similar but with aborted stamens. Fruit perianth 0.25-3.5 mm in diameter, subglobose, scarious, loosely wrapping the fruit. Seed horizontal or vertical, ovoid-subreniform, black and smooth, 1 mm in diameter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-11967","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n