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Spine shields 5–9 × 1.25–2 mm, decurrent and narrowing slightly but not reaching the flowering eye below, whitish-buff; spines slender, to 4 mm, occasionally obsolescent, widely diverging, usually deflexed; prickles usually slightly longer than the spines, to 5 mm long, c. 2 mm above the spines, divergent to form an X with the spines.
Cyathia c. 3.5 × 5–6 mm with funnel-shaped involucres; glands c. 1.2 × 2.7 mm, transversely oblong, touching, dull orange, outer margin reddish; lobes c. 1.5 × 1.5 mm, fimbriate, bright magenta.
Branches to 30 cm long, 8–10 mm in diameter, obtusely 4-angled, pale green; angles shallowly sinuate with tubercles c. 10 mm apart along the margins.
Spiny succulent shrublet to c. 25 cm high, intricately branched from the base to form tangled heaps up to 1 m in diameter.
Cymes solitary, simple; peduncles to 2.5 mm long, cyme branches to 3 mm long; bracts to 2.25 mm long, ovate, subacute.
Female flower: styles c. 3.5 mm long, free to the base, stigmas spreading, rugulose.
Male flowers 10: bracteoles c. 3 mm long, filiform; stamens c. 5 mm long.
Leaves c. 2 mm long, ovate-acute, caducous.
Capsule and seeds not seen.
