A much branched compact erect shrublet, 10 cm-1 m high, with ascending branches. Young stems rather thick, 2-3 mm diam., pale-coloured, papulose, the older powdery, terete but with distinct decurrent lines. Leaves sessile, rather succulent, green, spreading, oblanceolate, ovate or oblong, 0.5-1 cm long, 0.2-0.5 cm wide, papulose, revolute or rolled, rarely flat, obtuse at the tip, at the base narrowed to a clasping sheath. Flowers sessile or on very short pedicels, usually in groups of 2-5. Perianth densely papulose, the segments 4, 2 mm long, broadly ovate, subacute. Stamens about 15: anthers oval-oblong, bright yellow. Styles 1, less commonly 2. Fruit winged, olive-green changing to brown, rounded, 0.4-1.5 cm long and wide, papulose when young, then powdery, finally glabrous, deeply notched at the top: wings thin, with no intermediate ridges. Ripe fruit on a pedicel 2-5 mm long.
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Dwarf shrub, 0.1-1.0 m high; branches ascending; stems 2-3 mm in diam., pale-coloured when young, powdery, terete and with decurrent lines when older. Leaves sessile, base with clasping sheath, oblanceolate, ovate or oblong, revolute or rolled, papillate. Flowers 2-5 per cyme, sessile or on very short pedicles. Perianth 4-lobed, densely papillose. Stamens 15; anthers bright yellow. Styles 1(2). Fruit wings thin, papillate when young, then powdery and glabrous, deeply notched at top, olive-green turning brown.
Included in T. sarcophylla Fenzl.
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