Spreading shrub, often windswept, 0.2-2 m tall, 1-2.7 m diam., lignotuberous. Branchlets and young leaves appressed-sericeous. Leaves flattened, very thick, narrowly elliptic or obovate, 2-8 cm long, 4-11 mm wide, attenuate, widening at attachment, entire, rounded; mucro 1-3.5 mm long. Inflorescence of 60-80 flowers; involucre c. 3 mm long; rachis 7-17 mm long, tomentose; pedicels 3-6 mm long, glabrous or rarely sparsely tomentose. Perianth 3.5-6 mm long, claw pink, limb grey, white inside. Pistil c. 9 mm long; gland 0.2 mm high. Fruit obliquely ovate or obovate, 1.5-2.5 cm long, 0.9-1 cm wide, finely rugose; horns 3-5 mm long. Seed obliquely obovate, 16 mm long; wing broadly and fully down one side of seed body, narrowly and partly down other.
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