Perennial herb with adventitious roots, often forming compact colonies. Leaves rosetted, ascending, narrow-elliptic, mostly 1–4 cm long and 2–5 mm wide, thick, glossy, blunt, glabrous or with some hairs on margins, rarely pubescent above, 1-veined, margins c. entire; petiole indistinct. Spike capitate, usually 1–3-flowered; peduncles 2–5 cm long at anthesis, usually glabrous; bracts triangular, 1.5–3 mm long, acute, glabrous. Sepals elliptic, 2–2.2 mm long, subequal; corolla-tube 1.5–2 mm long, lobes 0.7–1.2 mm long, c. spreading; anthers c. 1 mm long, exserted. Capsule ellipsoid, 3–4 mm long; seeds usually 4, compressed-ellipsoid, 1.2–1.8 mm long, reddish-brown. Flowers Dec.–Mar.
