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Cymes shortly pedunculate, several times forked with cyme branches to 4 mm long, or cyathia solitary; bracts c. 1.25 × 1 mm, ovate, apiculate.
Cyathia with cup-shaped involucres, 2.5 × 3.5–5 mm; glands transversely oblong, 1.5–2.25 mm wide, touching, greenish.
Female flower: styles 1.75 mm long, united to halfway, with spreading thickened, shortly bifid apices.
Spine shields obovate, decurrent to 1 cm; spines 2–9 mm long, needle-like; prickles minute or absent.
Capsule obtusely lobed, truncate, 4.5 × 6–7 mm, far exserted on a recurved pedicel c. 1 cm long.
Spiny succulent dwarf tuberous-rooted perennial, 1–several-stemmed, often rhizomatous.
Male flowers: bracteoles c. 2.5 mm long, fimbriate; stamens c. 4 mm long.
Seeds subglobose, c. 3 mm in diameter, smooth, brown.
Leaves 8–15 × 3.5 mm, lanceolate, caducous.
