Small densely branched shrub to 30 cm. Branches densely woolly. Leaves small, alternate, sessile, erect or appressed, narrowly ovate to broadly triangular, 2–5 mm long, loosely woolly. Flowers solitary, bisexual. Fruiting perianth small, pale gold when dry, glabrous except woolly upper perianth; tube hemispherical, 1 mm high, 1.5 mm diam., woody, smooth except radicular ridge; wing simple, entire, with no radicular slit, horizontal, usually 4–6 mm diam., translucent; upper perianth woody, shortly woolly.