Spreading or erect shrub, 0.4-2.5 m tall, lignotuberous. Branchlets and young leaves densely appressed-ferruginous, glabrescent by flowering. Leaves flabelliform with deeply concave margins, 2.8-6.5 cm long, 2.3-7 cm wide, narrowly cuneate, entire, broadly rounded apically, spinose. Inflorescence umbelliform with 6-10 flowers; rachis obscure; pedicels 2-6 mm long, densely appressed-sericeous, with hairs ferruginous, continuing onto perianth. Perianth 5-7 mm long. Pistil 7-9 mm long; gland U-shaped. Fruit obliquely broadly obovate to obovate, 3.5-5 cm long, 4-4.5 cm wide, coarsely rugose or rugose-reticulate. Seed elliptic or obovate, 25-30 mm long; wing encircling seed body.
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