Divaricately-branched shrub to 1 m high. Branches white-woolly. Leaves alternate, fleshy, semiterete, 6–10 mm long, obtuse, sparsely tomentose with shortly dendritic hairs. Flowers solitary, unisexual or bisexual, dorsiventrally compressed. Fruiting perianth somewhat dorsiventrally compressed, pale brown; tube very short, broadly turbinate 0.5–1 mm high, thin-walled, densely papillose, produced at base into a prominent terete very thick-walled stipe, 1.5–3 mm long; wing simple, papery, undulate, 10–14 mm diam., finely nerved, glabrous, with a single radial (radicular) slit; upper perianth obscuring ovary, pubescent in centre or all over, bordered by a ring of raised papillose tissue.
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