Densely-branched shrub c. 0.3 m high. Branches closely woolly, the hairs at first white, later dark brown. Leaves alternate, erect, fleshy, narrowly ovate to semiterete, 2–4 mm long, somewhat woolly. Flowers solitary, bisexual, glabrous below and woolly above. Fruiting perianth glabrous except the densely woolly upper perianth; tube hemispherical, to 1 mm high and 1.5 mm diam., brittle or almost woody, faintly ribbed; wing simple, horizontal, papery, 4–6 mm diam., when dry translucent between the fine dark-brown radial veins, with a single radial (radicular) slit; upper perianth slightly convex, densely woolly.
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