Decumbent perennial with a woody base. Branches woolly. Leaves alternate, narrowly elliptic to obovate, acute, 7–12 mm long, rarely longer, tawny appressed-villous. Flowers solitary, bisexual, subtended by a pair of narrowly ovate bracteoles c. 1.5 mm long. Fruiting perianth woolly on upper side of wing, otherwise glabrous, dark brown when dry; tube cup-shaped, 1.5–2 mm high, hard, faintly ribbed or smooth with a rounded base; wing simple, circular, rigid but thin, horizontal, c. 12 mm diam.; faintly veined with a radial (radicular) slit; upper perianth flat, woolly.
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