Shrub up to about 1.5 m. high, profusely and densely branched, the branchlets erecto-patent, pubescent at least when young, whitish to pale brown; the branchlet-systems often pyramidal in outline.. Leaves very small, fleshy, very shortly linear to boat-shaped or scale-like, about 1–4 (–8) mm. long and about 1–1.5 mm. wide, glabrous or pubescent; the upper leaves appearing in dense tiny clusters owing to the presence of very abbreviated axillary shoots.. Flowers solitary in upper axils, about 2–2.75 mm. long, sessile, often aggregated, and seeming spicate.. Sepals 5, glabrous to pubescent.. Fruit (including wings) about 6–10 mm. in diameter; wings encircling the fruit, each wing reniform to transversely elliptic or deltoid-obovate, 2–4 mm. long, 1.5–7 mm. wide, scarious with a sheeny surface, very closely veined, erose on outer edge.. Seed 1.5–1.7 mm. in diameter, brown.
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