Compact or diffuse shrub, 0.5-1 m tall. Branchlets and young leaves glabrous or appressed-sericeous, with hairs ferruginous. Leaves simple, 2.5-11 cm long, 1.3-1.8 mm wide, sometimes granular papillose; mucro 1-4.8 mm long. Inflorescence axillary with 4 (rarely 6-10) flowers; involucre 2-2.5 mm long; rachis 0.7-2 mm long, hirsute; pedicels 2-3.5 mm long, glabrous; buds curved. Perianth 3-4.2 mm long, yellow and red, glabrous, glaucous. Pistil 6.5-8 mm long; pollen presenter oblique disc. Fruit obliquely obovate, 3.5-5 cm long, 1.9-3.4 cm wide, rugose, obliquely beaked, obscurely apiculate; horns 2 mm long. Seed 20-34 mm long; wing encircling seed body, off-white with black lines.
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