Shrub c. 70 cm high, usually dioecious. Branchlets closely woolly. Leaves alternate, semiterete to spathulate, rounded below, 8–15 mm long, appressed-pubescent. Flowers solitary, glabrous. Fruiting perianth glabrous; tube cup-shaped, 2.5–4 mm high, weakly crustaceous (somewhat fleshy when fresh), with a horizontal wing at base and apex and several imperfectly developed vertical wings, all wings papery and faintly veined; apical horizontal wing circular, 7–17 mm diam., usually with a single radial (radicular) slit; basal horizontal wing slightly smaller than apical; vertical wings up to 4+2, the contiguous pair decurrent from the radicular slit.
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