Rounded shrub c. 30 cm high. Branches thick, velvety. Leaves crowded towards branch apices, linear, bluntly trigonous, c. 30 mm long, 3 mm wide, silky. Flowers in pairs. Perianth pubescent, 5-lobed. Stamens 5. Fruiting perianth hard, sparsely pubescent; base shortly cylindrical, c. 1.5 mm high and wide, truncate; attachment circular, c. 2 mm diam.; tube shortly cylindrical, c. 1 mm high, bearing two series of appendages; antetepaline appendages 5, terete to narrowly oblong, c. 3 mm long, rough, 2-or 3-dentate at apex; intertepaline appendages 5, horizontal to reflexed, fan-shaped, 2–3 mm long, rough, dentate on margin. Seed horizontal; radicle centrifugal.
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