Openly-branched shrub to 1 m high. Branches slender, closely woolly. Leaves alternate, flattened, narrowly obovate to obovate, obtuse, mostly 8–15 mm long, sparsely to densely appressed-pubescent. Flowers solitary or paired (normally only one maturing), bisexual. Fruiting perianth straw-coloured to pale brown when dry; tube broadly turbinate, smooth or faintly ribbed, thin-walled, glabrous; wing horizontal (never infolded when young), simple with a single radial (radicular) slit, 10–14 mm diam., translucent; upper perianth flat, shortly woolly all over.