Small shrub, densely tomentose all over with dendritic and stellate hairs. Leaves slender, semiterete, 10–20 mm long, spreading. Flowers in 3-flowered axillary cymes congested into globular inflorescences due to the closely aggregated floral leaves. Perianth densely tomentose. Fruiting perianths closely aggregated in groups of 18–30 and partly sunken into swollen branch to form globular infructescences c. 12 mm diam.; perianth woody, cylindrical, c. 4 mm high; lobes erect; spines 5, erect, arising from base of each lobe.
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