Small erect shrub c. 30 cm high, ±hirtellous all over or eventually almost glabrous. Leaves frequently congested, ellipsoidal, 2–3 mm long. Flowers solitary. Fruiting perianth sparsely pubescent, hard; attachment basal, narrowly elliptic, c. 3 mm long, extending as a short decurrent spur down stem and sometimes also upwards; tube c. 1 mm long and wide, ±dorsiventrally compressed; limb inconspicuous, eventually incurved; spines 2, obliquely spreading in different vertical planes (radicular spine inclined abaxially and the other adaxially), c. 5 mm long, pubescent towards base. Seed and radicle erect.
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