Small divaricately-branched shrub to 50 cm high. Branches woolly. Leaves alternate, elliptic to narrowly obovate, c. 4 mm long in upper (fruiting) branches, 10–20 mm long in lower branches, silky pubescent. Flowers solitary, bisexual, densely woolly. Fruiting perianth sparsely woolly, leathery to crustaceous; tube slightly convex; wing simple, horizontal, 7–12 mm diam. with a single radial (radicular) slit; upper perianth with 4+2 erect processes alternating with the perianth lobes, the contiguous pair placed either side of the radicular slit, the processes linear to subulate, 3–4 mm long.
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