Compact rounded shrub to 50 cm high. Branches closely woolly. Leaves alternate, slender, semiterete, 8–15 mm long, rarely longer, fleshy, sparsely to densely silky or almost glabrous. Flowers solitary, bisexual. Fruiting perianth glabrous except woolly margin to lobes; tube turbinate, somewhat laterally compressed, very thick-walled, upper half fleshy on outside when fresh and becoming wrinkled on drying, the base solid and rounded, c. 6 mm high and wide (at apex); wing horizontal, 15–20 mm diam., thin, faintly veined, with a single radial (radicular) slit; upper perianth flat, style massive, hemispherical, hard, included within perianth.
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