Perennial c. 25 cm high. Branches woolly. Leaves slender, semiterete, 5–10 mm long, woolly. Flowers 2–7, united into a small woolly ball. Fruiting perianths united in lower half into a globular to slightly cylindrical thick-walled woody infructescence 6–10 mm diam. and falling as a whole; base rounded, deeply concave; covered in a woolly or villous indumentum; upper half of perianth cylindrical, c. 3 mm long, including the 5 incurved lobes, woody; spines absent or if present arising from and resembling the perianth lobes. Infructescence freely shed when mature.
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