Open densely-leaved shrub to 60 cm high, glabrous. Branches erect, somewhat fleshy, the older portions with prominent persistent leaf-bases. Leaves alternate, fleshy, semiterete, to 40 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, acute, erect (reflexed with age), bright green. Flowers solitary, bisexual, minutely bibracteolate, glabrous, crowded towards branch apices. Fruiting perianth dark brown when dry, glabrous; attachment broad and flat, 2–3 mm diam.; tube turbinate, c. 5 mm high and 4 mm wide (at apex), crustaceous except thick base; wing simple, horizontal, c. 15 mm diam., the radicular split reaching only part way to tube; upper perianth flat, 5-lobed, with 4 erect linear processes at base of and alternate to lobes (no process opposite radicle).
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