Spreading or rounded shrub, 1-5 m tall; lignotuberous. Branchlets and young leaves white appressed-pubescent. Leaves terete, 2-15 cm long, 0.8-1.7 mm wide, ascending, not grooved, glaucous. Inflorescence with 1-10 flowers; involucre 2-3 mm long; rachis knob-like; pedicels 2.5-6.5 mm long, white appressed-pubescent, with hairs extending onto perianth. Flowers bisexual. Perianth 3.5-5.5 mm long. Pistil recurved, 7.8-11.5 mm long; pollen presenter oblique with cone 0.15-0.3 mm high; gland V-shaped, 0.1-0.3 mm high. Fruit sigmoidal, 2.2-4.5 cm long, 1.8-3.2 cm wide, coarsely wrinkled; beak reflexed, narrow, 7-14 mm long. Seed 13-22 mm long; wing decurrent halfway down one side of seed body only.
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