Shrub to 60 cm high. Branches ascending, closely white-woolly and pilose in leaf axils. Leaves subterete, c. 10 mm long, fleshy, glabrous. Flowers solitary, bisexual; perianth lobes densely woolly-villous towards margin. Fruiting perianth glabrous except densely woolly margin to lobes; tube turbinate, c. 4 mm high, solid in lower half, crustaceous, with 3–5 fan-shaped vertical wings usually restricted to lower half of tube; horizontal wing circular, flat, to 12 mm diam., with a single radial (radicular) slit; upper perianth convex or arched.
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