Open shrub to 1 m high. Branches woolly. Leaves alternate, semiterete, mostly 5–8 mm long, 1 mm wide, fleshy, woolly-villous. Flowers solitary, bisexual. Fruiting perianth glabrous; tube hemispherical or cup-shaped, 1–1.5 mm high, 1.5–2.5 mm diam. at apex, smooth, crustaceous or woody; wing simple, horizontal, mostly 8–11 mm diam., without a radial slit, brown to straw-coloured when dry, with indistinct nervation; upper perianth flat or raised to form a hard annular disc, woolly-ciliate but otherwise glabrous.