Shrub c. 0.3 m high, closely woolly on branches and leaves. Branches stout, bearing protuberances left by fallen leaves. Leaves alternate, thick and fleshy, narrowly oblong to obcuneate, c. 20 mm long, 4 mm wide, convex below, rounded at apex. Flowers solitary, bisexual, globose and densely woolly. Fruiting perianth large; attachment broad, c. 2 mm diam.; tube turbinate, 3–4 mm high, smooth, glabrous, with thick woody walls; wing simple, horizontal, thin, c. 20 mm diam., sparsely woolly above, with a single radial (radicular) slit; upper perianth slightly convex, thick, densely woolly. Style base hard and turbinate, included, the upper portion slender, exserted and deciduous.
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