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Cymes 1–6 and randomly arranged at each flowering eye, simple, lateral cyathia vertically arranged; peduncles and cyme branches 7–12.5 mm long, c. 5 mm in diameter; bracts to 4–5.5 × 5.5–7 mm, broadly ovate.
Cyathia 6 × 8–10 mm, broadly funnel-shaped; glands c. 3.25 × 4–5 mm, transversely broadly elliptic, outer margin ± undulate; lobes 2.5 mm long, obovate, keeled, margin fimbriate.
Spine shields joined to form a continuous horny margin to the wings; spines stout, spreading, to 15 mm long, longest at the widest part of the wings of the branch segments.
Female flower: perianth 3-lobed, 6 mm in diameter; ovary subglobose; styles c. 4.5 mm long, united for 2 mm, apices shortly bifid, rugulose.
Capsule deeply lobed, c. 8 × 18–21 mm, base truncate, exserted on a pedicel to 8 mm long, 3.5 mm in diameter.
Succulent shrub or small tree to 4–5(10) m high; trunk stout, with arcuate-ascending branches.
Male flowers c. 50: bracteoles laciniate; stamens c. 6 mm long.
Seeds c. 3.5 mm in diameter, subglobose, buff mottled brownish.
