Small pubescent shrubs. Leaves alternate, sessile, linear, somewhat fleshy. Flowers bisexual, solitary and axillary, ebracteolate. Perianth urceolate, shortly 5-lobed, fleshy in lower half. Stamens 5. Stigmas 2, slender. Fruiting perianth shortly turbinate, hard, glabrous, with 5 prominent tepaline and 5 less obvious intertepaline ribs; base truncate and slightly hollowed; apex truncate and extending into hard narrow entire horizontal 5-angled wing; pericarp crustaceous above, membranous below. Seed horizontal, circular; radicle centrifugal; perisperm central. Testa membranous.
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