Spreading, upright or rounded shrub, 2 (-4) m high, ?lignotuberous or not. Branchlets ribbed, soon or tardily glabrescent. Leaves terete to flattened, flexible, 0.8-5 cm long, 0.7-2.5 mm wide, glabrous, sometimes grooved below; mucro c. 0.2-0.9 mm long. Inflorescence with 2-11 flowers; rachis simple, 0.5-1 mm long, rarely up to 6 rachises developing on previous year's rachis, densely pubescent with appressed brown and/or white raised hairs. Flowers cream-white to deep yellow; pedicels 1.5-3.3 mm long, white-pubescent. Perianth 1.3-2.2 mm long, glabrous. Pistil 3-4.5 mm long; gland curved-rectangular. Fruit dimorphic, remaining closed if woody, opening if less woody, broadly ovate, 1.3-3.5 cm long, 0.9-3 cm wide, densely coarsely warty or almost smooth; beak short, oblique and broad, or sometimes narrow, decurrent down red-brown wood zone side only; horns absent. Seed marginal, obliquely elliptic, 12-23 mm long, 5.5-11 mm wide; wing decurrent broadly 2/3 to whole way down one side only, dark-grey to grey-yellow.
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