Small woolly shrubs. Leaves alternate, sessile, linear, somewhat fleshy. Flowers bisexual, solitary and axillary, exstipulate. Perianth cup-shaped, 5-lobed, fleshy in lower half. Stamens 5, glabrous. Stigmas 2, slender. Fruiting perianth sub-globular, hard, densely woolly, with a radicular split running almost to base, faintly ribbed; appendages in two series: inner appendages 5, erect, oblong, deeply divided, arising from base of perianth lobes; outer appendages 5, spreading, spinescent, arising from base of inner appendages. Pericarp crustaceous above, membranous below. Seed thick, horizontal; testa membranous; embryo circular with centrifugal radicle; perisperm central, copious.
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