Erect shrub to 1 m. Branches slender, striate, sparsely woolly when young. Leaves alternate, obovoid and c. 3 mm long on short lateral branches, narrowly fusiform and up to 15 mm long on the erect branches, sparsely pubescent to glabrous, narrowed into a short flattened petiole. Flowers bisexual, solitary, glabrous, subtended by a pair of bracteoles c. 0.7 mm long. Fruiting perianth glabrous; tube convex, thin-walled, c. 2 mm diam.; wings 5, horizontal, thin, fan-shaped, c. 2 mm long, with delicate brown venation when dry; perianth lobes thickened but not fleshy, continuous with wings.
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