Shrubby perennials; branches virgate, striate, glabrous. Leaves 1.5-5 cm long, 2-4.5 mm broad, linear or linear-oblanceolate, thick and wrinkled when dry, folded, or thinner, flat, 2.5-5 cm x 2.5-8 mm, oblanceolate, mucronulate, often fascicled, with 2 minute, subulate stipules. Racemes terminal, many-flowered, lax, elongate. Pedicels 0.8-1 cm long, lengthening very little in fruit when appressed erect, subtended by 2 minute bracts. Sepals 5.5-6 mm long, 1.8-2 mm broad, oblong with membranous margins; outer 2 cucullate and shortly horn-tipped; inner 2 saccate. Petals 9.5-11 mm long, 3.3-3.8 mm broad, oblong-oblanceolate, rounded. Filaments 3.5-5.5 mm and 4-6 mm long. Anthers 1.5-2 mm long. Ovary narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, very shortly stipitate; ovules 6. Fruits 3-5 cm long, 3.5-6 mm broad, lanceolate or narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, very shortly stipitate; valves flat, 1-nerved, net-veined; style 2 mm long, stout, tapering. Seeds 2-5-4 mm in diameter, subcircular, rough but not papillate.
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Perennial shrub, up to 0.6 m high, branches virgate, glabrous, striate. Leaves often fascicled, thick and wrinkled when dry, folded, flat, mucronulate; 2 minute subulate stipules; linear or linear-oblanceolate. Flowers fragrant, pale pink to mauve. Inflorescence a terminal, many-flowered raceme. Sepals oblong with membranous margins; outer 2 cucullate and shortly horn-tipped; inner 2 saccate. Petals oblong-oblanceolate, rounded. Fruit lanceolate or narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, shortly stipitate. Seeds subcircular, rough but not papillate.
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