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Cyathia c. 3.5 × 5 mm, with obconic involucres; glands spreading, transversely oblong, 2.5 mm wide, touching, greenish-yellow, outer margin pinkish; lobes c. 1 × 1.25 mm, transversely elliptic, fimbriate, pale green, speckled red.
Spine shields 4–9 × 3 mm, obovate, separate; spines 3–10 mm long, narrowly divergent, carmine when young becoming grey; prickles 1–3 mm long.
Male flowers: fascicular bracts broadly flabellate, fimbriate, and bracteoles narrow, c. 3 mm long, laciniate; stamens c. 4.5 mm long.
Cymes solitary, simple, subsessile; branches 1–1.5 mm long; bracts 1.5 × 1.5 mm, subquadrate.
Female flower: styles to 2 mm long, free to the base, spreading recurved, stigmas capitate.
Capsule red-brown, c. 3.5 × 4 mm, subglobose, pedicel 1 mm long.
Spiny succulent sparsely branched untidy shrub, c. 1 m high.
Leaves sessile, fleshy, 8–22 × 7–12 mm, ovate.
Seed ellipsoid, 2.5 × 1.75 mm, verrucose.
