Prostrate to decumbent perennial with a small woody base and a long fleshy taproot, c. 10 cm high. Branches woolly. Leaves alternate, linear, mostly 7–12 mm long, appressed-villous. Fruiting perianth woolly-villous, discoid, pentagonal in outline, 2.5–4 mm diam. (without indumentum), cartilaginous to crustaceous; lower surface convex, continuous with the narrow horizontal rim (wing) which is sometimes divided into 5 short truncate lobes; upper surface raised into a thick hard pentagonal ridge or platform formed from the convex bases of the perianth lobes, the centre sunken.
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