Small shrub c. 15 cm high. Branches robust, glabrous, glossy, densely pilose in axils. Leaves crowded, slender and semiterete, flattened towards base, 1–1.5 cm long, sparsely pilose when young. Flowers solitary but congested. Perianth pilose. Stamens 5. Style robust, pilose. Fruiting perianth woody; attachment oblique, circular, c. 1.5 mm diam.; tube very shortly turbinate, 1.5–2 mm high and c. 4 mm wide at apex, ribbed, sparsely pilose; limb erect, oblong c. 3.5 mm high, membranous to crustaceous, sparsely pilose; spines 2, rarely 3, erect or slightly spreading, opposite, 8–13 mm long; radicular tubercle present. Seed horizontal.
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