Small shrub to 30 cm high. Branches thin, densely woolly with smooth curled hairs. Leaves well-spaced, alternate, fleshy, narrowly-terete or fusiform, acute, 8–15 mm long, glabrous, dark green. Flowers solitary, bisexual, glabrous except woolly margin of perianth lobes. Fruiting perianth glabrous, dark brown when dry; tube spongy, swollen and subglobular, c. 8 mm high and wide, easily crushed; wing simple, horizontal, entire, 12–15 mm diam., thin, shortly decurrent opposite radicle as a fused double vertical membrane on tube; upper perianth flat.
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