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Shrub, up to 4 m high; with branches terminating in spines with alternate, crowded, spinelike, lateral branchlets. Leaves sessile or subsessile, fascicled; blade linear, 5-35 x 1-4 mm, greyish green. Flowers: solitary or in fascicles; perianth 6-8 mm long, pubescent on outside, yellowish green; Aug., Sep. Fruit 15-25 x 12-20 mm, winged, papery, yellowish green turning pink, brownish red or purple with age.
Anthocarp 15–25 × 12–20 mm. (incl. wings), pubescent to glabrescent, yellowish-green turning pink, red or purple with age; wings more or less semi-circular, parchment-like; central portion fusiform; fruit 7–8 × 2.5–3 mm., oblong-elliptic in outline, square in cross section, remains of reduced stamens around base; seed more or less filling fruit cavity.
Deciduous, densely branched shrub, up to 3 m tall, with spinelike lateral branches. Leaves in clusters, linear-cuneiform, greyish green. Flowers on leafless branches, funnel-shaped, 6-8 mm long, creamy yellow, scented. Fruit 4-winged, papery, turning pink, red or purple with age.
Perianth 6–8 mm. long, densely crisped pubescent to tomentose on outside; lobes rounded to (in female flowers) triangular, slightly cucullate, curling inwards as anthocarp develops.
Shrub, up to 4 m high. Branchlets spinescent. Leaves linear, fascicled. Fruits winged, papery, brownish red. Flowers yellowish green.
Ovary 1.5–3.5 mm. long, fusiform-elliptic; style 1.5–3.5 mm. long; stigma multifid; ovule attached to one side of base of ovary.
Leaves greyish green, 5–35 × 1–4 mm., linear-cuneiform, coriaceous, apex rounded or emarginate, glabrous to crisped pubescent.
Stamens usually 4 longer, 6–12.5 mm. long and 4 shorter, 4–10 mm. long; filaments filiform; anthers 0.5–2 mm. long.
Branches terminating in spines with crowded, alternate, spine-like lateral branches.
Bark greyish yellow to greyish brown.
Flowers creamy yellow, scented.
Shrub up to 3 m. tall.
