Shrub, ± 160 mm tall, with twisting branches, internodes ochre to dark blackish brown. Leaves 3-sided, blue greyish green, smooth or with low papillae. Flowers 3 per cyme, 30 mm diam., petals 2 mm broad, pink, filamentous staminodes absent, filaments purple. Fruit 5-locular, base funnel-shaped, top a high turret, rims of valves forming protruding, high corners at outer margin of fruit when closed, crateriform in centre, covering membranes with protruding closing rodlets, closing body a small hook, expanding keels not touching at bases.
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