Dense shrub, 0.4-1 m tall, ?non-lignotuberous. Branchlets and young leaves ferruginous. Leaves 3-9.5 cm long, 0.7-1.3 mm wide, not grooved, tomentose to appressed-pubescent, glabrescent; mucro erect. Inflorescence with 1-5 flowers; involucre c. 2.5 mm long; pedicels 1.5-2.5 mm long, white appressed-pubescent. Perianth 2-2.3 mm long; hairs white on claw, ferruginous on limb. Pistil 3-3.4 mm long; disc of pollen presenter 0.5-0.6 mm long; gland 0.1-0.2 mm high. Fruit inserted at right angles to stalk, obliquely ovate, 2-2.8 cm long, 1.7-2 cm wide, rugose-reticulate, ?sparsely pubescent, obscurely apiculate. Seed 17-20 mm long, occupying almost whole valve; wing encircling seed-body.
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