A much-branched shrub, reaching a height of 6 ft.; branches slender, terete, not jointed, pallid, pubescent; leaves alternate, ovate, minute, amplexicaul, densely pubescent; flowers solitary; bracteoles suborbicular, keeled, pubescent; perianth-segments ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, slightly pubescent; filaments dilated below; anthers oblong, with a minute terminal appendage; disk fleshy, obtusely 5-lobed; style elongate; stigmas subulate; wings of the fruiting perianth inserted below the middle of the segments, obovate, membranous, yellowish or dull purple, the two inner narrower than the others.
Shortly hairy, grey shrublet, 1-3 m high. Leaves scale-like, fleshy, soon becoming glabrous and wrinkled. Flowers solitary in upper axils, minute. Flowering time Dec.-Feb. Fruit broadly winged.
Shortly hairy, grey shrublet, to 1.2 m. Leaves scale-like, fleshy, soon becoming glabrous and wrinkled. Flowers solitary in upper axils, minute, fruits broadly winged.
A shrub. It grows 1.2-3 m tall. The leaves on the stalks are hairy. The flowers occur singly in the axils of the upper leaves. The fruit are broadly winged.
Shrub, up to 1.5 m high. Cauline leaves and leaves in bud pubescent (later almost glabrous), irregularly rugose when dry.