Compact erect plant to 0.5 m high; tomentum of short stellate white hairs with scattered longer dendritic ones, becoming sparse and giving a grey-green colour. Prophylls and cataphylls linear, 0.6-1 mm long; cataphylls c. 1 mm above prophylls. Leaf lamina cuneate to spathulate, rounded to truncate with a small blunt mucro, 16-25 mm long, usually 5-7 mm wide, attenuate at base, not distinctly petiolate. Inflorescence a triad or pentad; peduncle erect, c. 2 mm long; bracts narrowly triangular, c. 1 mm long, spreading. Male flower c. 1.5 mm diam.; stipe c. 1.5 mm long. Female flower c. 3 mm long. Fruit fusiform, c. 13 mm long, stipitate, the tepals cap-like at apex.
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