Divaricately-branched shrub to 1 m high. Branchlets densely tomentose. Leaves terete, slender, acute, fleshy, 5–12 mm long, sparsely appressed-villous with simple hairs. Flowers solitary, rarely paired, bisexual, densely tomentose. Fruiting perianth soft and easily crushed, sparsely pilose except wing, straw-coloured when dry; tube broadly turbinate, c. 2 mm high with a vertical slit opposite radicle extending halfway down; wing horizontal, simple, papery, 12–15 mm diam., very faintly veined, with a single radial (radicular) slit from whose margins the wing passes down the tube as two membranes one either side of slit.
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