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Cyathia c. 2.75 × 3.5 mm, with cup-shaped involucres; glands to 2 mm wide, oblong, touching; lobes subquadrate, 1.25 × 1.5 mm, fimbriate.
Spiny succulent dwarf shrublet to 15 cm high, with densely tufted, stoloniferous branches, forming compact clumps to 50 cm in diameter.
Branches 5–8 mm in diameter, very obtusely 4-angled; angles shallowly sinuate with tubercles 6–10 mm apart along the margins.
Female flower: styles 2.5 mm long, united at the base, spreading, with shortly bifid apices, spirally twisted when dry.
Cymes solitary, simple; cyme branches 1–2 mm long; bracts 1.5 × 1 mm, oblong, denticulate.
Male flowers: bracteoles 2.75 mm long; stamens c. 3.5 mm long.
Leaves scale-like, 0.5 × 0.75 mm, deltoid, deciduous.
Capsule 3.25 × 3.5 mm, obtusely lobed.
Seeds 2 × 1.4 mm, ovoid, verrucose.
