Dense much-branched shrub, 0.7-1.3 m tall, non-lignotuberous. Branchlets and young leaves appressed-pubescent, ferruginous. Leaves 2.5-5.5 cm long, 0.8-1.2 mm wide, ungrooved; mucro erect. Inflorescence with 2, 4 or 6 flowers; involucre 1.3 mm long; pedicels 1.5-2.5 mm long, densely appressed-sericeous, with hairs white or cream-yellow, continuing onto claw. Perianth 3.5-4.2 mm long, with hairs white or cream-yellow on claw, ferruginous on limb. Pistil c. 5 mm long; disc of pollen presenter 0.9-1 mm long; gland 1 mm long, erect. Fruit erect, ovate or obliquely ovate, 2.5-3.5 cm long, 1.5-1.9 cm wide, rugose-reticulate, somewhat corky; beak absent; apiculum 3.5 mm long. Seed 25 mm long, occupying almost whole valve; wing encircling seed body.
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