Shrublet up to 35 cm tall. Branches white, ending in a pair of dense-flowered spikes each; rather spinescent. Leaves variable, from shortly petioled to subsessile to sessile, elliptical to oblanceolate to linear oblong, up to 15 x 4 mm, revolute margined, obtuse or acute. Spikes one-sided, 3-8 -flowered. Flowers mostly sessile. Petals yellow, a little longer than the flowering calyx. Capsule densely hairy, about as long as the calyx.