Plants branched from the base or nearly so, 5-15(-25) cm, sparsely covered with dendroid or stellate hairs, or almost glabrous. Leaf blades linear-lanceolate, linear, occasionally narrowly lanceolate, usually plane, (1.5-)2-4 × 0.1-0.5 cm. Inflorescences compact and dense, ovoid, ovate or oblong-obovate. Bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate (occasionally proximal ones leaflike, narrowly ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate), 0.5-2 × 0.2-0.6 cm. Perianth segment 1. Fruits brown, dark brown, or deep olive green, usually with numerous reddish brown spots and whitish warts, strongly convex abaxially, usually strongly concave adaxially, elongate-obovate or obovate-elliptic, broadest beyond middle, (4.2-)4.5-5(-5.2) × 2.5-3 mm; wing not translucent or translucent only at margin, thick, 0.1-0.2(-0.3) mm wide (occasionally nearly absent), margins entire or irregularly erose, usually involute toward adaxial face of fruit, apex rostrate, triangular (wing long-adnate to style bases).
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