Decumbent perennial herb with woody rootstock, or small shrub to 50 cm high. Branches shortly woolly. Leaves alternate, linear to very narrowly elliptic, mostly 7–15 mm long. Flowers solitary, bisexual. Fruiting perianth leathery to crustaceous, woolly; tube slightly convex; wing horizontal, of 5 spathulate to fan-shaped lobes (sometimes contiguous), in all to 10 mm diam.; upper perianth with 4+2 erect processes alternating with the perianth lobes, the contiguous pair placed either side of radicular slit; processes narrowly spathulate to clavate, to 4 mm long, frequently expanded or lacerated at apex or deeply bilobed.
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