Shrub, ± 400 mm tall, internodes grey-brown. Leaves 3-sided, with convex sides, papillate, yellowish green. Flowers solitary, bracteoles on middle of pedicel, sepals 6, petals 3-seriate, 0.5-1.25 mm broad, pink-magenta, filamentous staminodes present, filaments white, surface of gynoecium densely papillate. Fruit 6-locular, base elongate, funnel-to bell-shaped, with long papillae, top with low rims, covering membranes convex, closing rodlets large, almost touching the hook-shaped, small closing body, expanding keels ending in short awns.
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