Several-stemmed dense shrub, 0.3-1 m tall, lignotuberous. Branchlets glabrous or with erect hairs. Leaves narrowly obovate to obovate, 2-6.5 cm long, 8-16 mm wide, attenuate, rarely auriculate, dentate, with teeth 0.7-7 mm long, glabrous, glaucous or not (lower leaves often brown); mucro 1.5-2 mm long. Inflorescence usually in lower axils, occasionally within upper axils, with 6-14 flowers; involucre c. 2 mm long; rachis 2-3 mm long; pedicels 3-5.5 mm long, glaucous. Perianth 1.5-4.5 mm long, crimson or purplish with ?yellow limb, glaucous. Pistil 3.5-7.5 mm long. Fruit obliquely ovate, 1.8-3 cm long, 1.3-2 cm wide, smooth with scattered or dense truncate prickles, pubescent. Seed 1.4-2.3 mm long; wing broadly down one side and narrowly down other, or encircling seed body.
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