Twisted multi-stemmed spindly shrub, 0.9–2 m tall, to 1 m wide. Branchlets and young leaves appressed-sericeous, quickly glabrescent. Leaves crowded at branchlet ends, terete, 2–9.5 cm long, 1.2–1.7 mm wide, usually curved, not grooved. Inflorescence with 6-12 flowers; involucre 4–5 mm long; rachis 0.5–1.5 mm long; pedicels 5.5–8 mm long, white-tomentose, with some hairs appressed; hairs extending onto perianth. Perianth 5.5–7 mm long, white. Pistil 8.5–11 mm long. Fruit obliquely obovate, 1.3–1.5 cm long, 4.5–6 mm wide, rugose, glaucous; apiculum to 1 mm long; horns lacking. Seed c. 10.5 mm long; wing apical only.
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