Perennial herb to 20 cm high. Branches decumbent to erect, slender, sparsely puberulous to villous, arising from a woody rootstock. Leaves alternate, narrowly oblong-elliptic, mostly 4–10 mm long, sparsely pubescent to villous. Flowers solitary, bisexual, sometimes subtended by a pair of small triangular bracteoles. Fruiting perianth sparsely puberulous, drying black; tube slightly convex, thin-walled, c. 3 mm diam.; wings 5, only slightly exceeding tube, c. 4 mm diam., coriaceous, each broadly lunate and unevenly imbricate, the margins sometimes incurved and somewhat inflated.
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