Weak spreading dark bluish green shrub c. 0.5 m high, glabrous except axillary tufts of wool. Branches slender, striate, glaucous. Leaves alternate, well-spaced, fleshy, narrowed at base, those of fruiting branchlets fusiform and c. 5 mm long, on main branches slender-terete and up to 25 mm long. Flowers solitary, bisexual, glabrous, minutely bibracteolate at base. Fruiting perianth glabrous, pink when fresh; tube shortly hemispherical, c. 3 mm diam., faintly costate, thin-walled; wing thin, horizontal, simple with a single radial (radicular) slit, 8–12 mm diam.; upper perianth flat.
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