Densely branched succulent perennial shrub, to 25 cm tall, 30 cm diameter, internodes not visible, stems very woody. Leaves dull olive green, connate toward bases, sheath 3-4 mm long, free parts spreading widely, 8-10 mm long, 9-10 mm broad, swollen and trigonous, tip without a mucro, margins and keels rounded, but with line along them, epidermis velvety. Flowers remaining open day and night, 13-20 mm diameter, solitary, sessile, bracteolate, calyx lobes 6, shorter than petaloid staminodes, petaloid staminodes pink, 5-8 mm long, filamentous staminodes white, surrounding the central cone of stamens, filaments white, shortly papillate near bases, pollen white, filamentous staminodes and stamens overtop stigmas, stigmas 10-11, pale yellow to greenish, to 2 mm long, top of ovary raised, nectaries in a ring. Fruit 6-7 mm diameter, locules 10-11, top raised and dome-shaped, with low rims, base shortly funnel-shaped, closing bodies large, white, blocking the exit of the locule almost completely, valve wings narrow and ending almost in awns toward tips, covering membranes complete, with stiff closing ledge developed below rim. Seeds pale, longer than tall, almost smooth.
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