Intricately branched shrub to c. 50 cm high. Branches closely white-woolly. Leaves well-spaced, slender and semiterete, c. 20 mm long, erect and spreading at tips when young, sparsely silky-pilose with scabridulous hairs to glabrous. Flowers solitary. Perianth densely woolly. Stamens 5. Fruiting perianth woody, covered with a thick white woolly indumentum except distal portion of spines; attachment basal, elliptic, 2–5 mm long; tube globular, 4–6 mm diam.; limb erect; spines 2, rarely 3, opposite, erect to spreading, 3–20 mm long. Seed horizontal, radicle erect.
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