Shrub, with decumbent branches ± 300 mm long, internodes reddish ochre, grey to white with age. Leaves roundish, 30-40 x 6-8 mm, smooth. Flowers in cymes, bracteoles midway along pedicel, petals 3-or 4-seriate, 0.5-2 mm broad, white, upper bracteoles forming a pouch, filamentous staminodes absent, filaments white. Fruit 5-locular, base elongate, funnel-shaped, top turret-shaped, covering membranes with distal, protruding closing rodlets, closing body a hook, expanding keels well separated basally.
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