Low spreading or compact shrub, 0.3-1.5 m tall, non-lignotuberous. Branchlets and young leaves tomentose, with ferruginous and glandular hairs. Leaves simple, 1-5 cm long, 0.9-1.7 mm wide; mucro 1-3 mm long. Inflorescence axillary or terminal, with 6-12 flowers; involucre 3-5 mm long; rachis 1.5-2 mm long, villous; pedicels 2.5-7 mm long, hirsute and sparsely glandular, with hairs white; buds curved. Perianth 3-4.5 mm long, white suffused pink, glabrous to hirsute, glandular externally, papillose internally, glaucous. Pistil 8-11.5 mm long; pollen presenter oblique or ±lateral. Fruit obliquely ovate, 1.8-2.5 cm long, 1.2-1.7 cm wide, tuberculate, not beaked, obscurely apiculate; horns 5-6 mm long. Seed obliquely ovate, 14-20 mm long; wing encircling seed body, off-white.
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