Shrub to 0.5 m high, predominantly dioecious. Branchlets tomentose, the older ones scarred with persistent leaf-bases. Leaves alternate or opposite, fleshy, very narrowly oblong, acute, obtusely trigonous in T.S., 10–30 mm long, 1.5–3 mm wide, densely silky. Flowers solitary or paired, in leafy spikes. Fruiting perianth silky-woolly forming a soft ball c. 10 mm diam.; tube broadly turbinate to cup-shaped, c. 3 mm high, with thin weak walls; wing leathery, horizontal, deeply and irregularly divided into 5 lobes; upper perianth deeply lobed, covering ovary.
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