Evergreen shrub, hermaphrodite up to 60 cm in height, glabrous. Main stem strongly woody. Bark brown, that of the branches of a lighter color. Glaucous green twigs, with thin articles (10-12 \u00d7 1.5-2 mm). Opposite leaves, well developed (0.5 to 1.5 cm long), cylindrical to claviform, more or less patent, with a deciduous terminal mucron. Leaves welded to each other and with the stem, forming a kind of inverted dome with two elongated ends (up to 1.5 cm) which are the leaves, glaucous green. No axillary hairiness, but characteristic villous-woolly galls sometimes appear at the axil of the leaves. Hermaphrodite flowers, solitary, axillary, grouped in spiciform inflorescences in groups of 3 to 7 on the upper part of the twigs. Perianth with 5 membranous and unequal parts: the 3 external suborbicular, the 2 internal oval and narrower, all obtuse. The fruit is a berry with a vertically arranged spiral-shaped seed. Fruiting perianth with 5 white or yellowish-white wings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-43013","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n