Erect compact shrub, 0.4-1.5 m tall, ?lignotuberous. Branchlets glabrous or with upright hairs, glaucous. Leaves spathulate with tricuspidate apex, 2-5.5 cm long, 8-36 mm wide, usually auriculate, dentate for whole length or on auriculate base with teeth 1-10 mm long, glabrous, glaucous, narrower and spinier apically. Inflorescence in upper axils, with 8-16 flowers; involucre 2 mm long; rachis 2-3 mm long, glabrous; pedicels 3-7 mm long, pink, not glaucous. Perianth 2.5-4.5 mm long, greenish white, cream-white or pink, glaucous. Pistil 7-10 mm long. Fruit obliquely ovate, 1.5-2.5 cm long, pubescent, with scattered to moderately dense prickles. Seed 1.7-1.9 mm long; wing broad on one side, narrow on other or encircling seed body.
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