Stems thin, green when young, branched,. intermingled, brown. Leaves minute, scarious, 1-1.5 x c. 0.5 mm. Flowers in compact clusters, each with 2-8 flowers, 2-3 mm long; pedicel glandular, 1-2.5 nun long; bract cup-shaped, brown, 1-2 x 0.5-0.7 mm or sometimes obsolete: Calyx lobes 5, 1.2-1.5 x 1-1.7 mm, fleshy, oval to orbicular, obtuse, glandular, usually with reticulate venation, ± glossy, covering more than half of corolla, tube lobes c. 0.7 mm long. Corolla lobes 1-1.5 x 0.7-1.2 mm, light brown to yellow, oblong-elliptical, acute-obtuse, inflexed, with reticulate venation, lower half usually glossy, upper half mostly non-glossy, tube c. 1 mm long; scarious, slightly bigger than the corolla tube, abundantly fringed. Stamens 5, filament broader at the base, tapering towerds the apex, 0.3-0.7 mm long, fused part of the filament not prominent in the petals; anther oblong-elliptical to oval, c. 0.5 x 0.2-0.3 mm. ovary globular, fleshy, brown, 1-1.2 mm long; styles 2, linear, reddish-brown, 0.5-1 mm long; stigma rounded or capitate, brown, c. 0.2 mm long, and wide; ovule 4, reddish-brown, triangular or ovoid, c. 0.5 x c. 0.3 mm. Capsule depressed-globose, membranous; with a intrastylar opening with glands, 2-2.5 mm long, and broad, not definitely circumscissile, surmounted by sepal lobes, petals and stamens. Seeds 4, reddish-brown, ovoid or somewhat triangular, usually flattened, on one side, 1-1.5 x c. 1 mm; hilum short oblong, usually with small dark circular area around it.