Decumbent perennial with stout taproot. Branches loosely woolly when young. Leaves alternate, narrowly oblong-elliptic to elliptic, 7–12 mm long, tawny appressed-villous. Flowers solitary, bisexual, with or without a pair of narrowly-oblong bracteoles c. 1.5 mm long. Fruiting perianth fleshy when fresh, depressed barrel-shaped, constricted in middle, c. 3 mm high, flat above, glabrous; tube when dry with upper half very broadly turbinate to convex, 10-ribbed, thin-walled, the lower half expanded into a spongy hollow base enclosing the cushion-shaped receptacle; wing thin, horizontal, circular, entire, c. 10 mm diam., faintly nerved and with a single radial (radicular) slit; upper perianth flat, glabrous except woolly-ciliate margin to perianth lobes.
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