Prostrate to decumbent perennial with a woody stock. Branches slender, somewhat woolly when young. Leaves alternate, linear to narrowly oblong, 5–10 mm long, fleshy, villous. Flowers solitary, bisexual, subtended by a pair of deltoid bracteoles c. 1 mm long. Fruiting perianth when fresh depressed barrel-shaped, constricted in middle, c. 3 mm high, 4–5 mm diam. at apex, fleshy, flat above and below, papillose on sides and puberulous above; tube bulging in lower half, smooth in upper half with 10 rounded ribs (when dry the lower half forms an expanded slightly spongy base, the upper half becomes broadly turbinate and thin-walled); wing a very narrow horizontal extension to the flat upper perianth.
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