Intricately branched often gnarled shrub, 1-2.6 m tall. Branchlets and young leaves appressed-pubescent, with hairs persistent until flowering. Leaves crowded at branchlet ends, terete, 1.5-4.5 cm long, 1.2-1.7 mm wide, straight, grooved on lower side or not. Inflorescence with 2-12 flowers; involucre 4.5-5 mm long; rachis obscure; pedicels 2.5-5 mm long, tomentose to appressed-pubescent, with hairs white, extending onto perianth. Perianth 2.7-4.5 mm long, white. Pistil 8.5-9 mm long. Fruit obliquely obovate, 1.4-1.8 cm long, 6.5-8.5 mm wide, finely rugose, glaucous; apiculum 2-4 mm long; horns lacking. Seed 11-13.5 mm long; wing broadly and partly down one side of seed body only.
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