Compact divaricately branched shrub c. 1 m high covered with a close bluish-grey woolly tomentum, dioecious. Leaves alternate, fleshy, narrowly obovoid, 4–8 mm long, rounded at apex, slightly narrowed at base. Flowers in pairs but usually only one maturing, closely woolly, the male hemispherical, the female globular. Fruiting perianth straw-coloured or pale brown when dry; tube hemispherical to turbinate, c. 2 mm high and 2–3 mm wide at apex, firm but thin-walled except thick base, sparsely woolly; wing simple, horizontal, papery, c. 10 mm diam., glabrous with fine radial venation and a single radial (radicular) slit; upper perianth flat, closely woolly. Style short, thick, woolly.
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