Intricately branched annual or perennial herb. Branches woolly. Leaves narrowly obovate to obovate, c. 10 mm long, villous. Flowers solitary. Perianth 5-lobed. Stamens 5. Fruiting perianth hard, woolly, persistent; attachment oblique; tube turbinate with a thick solid base, c. 3 mm high, 2.5–4 mm wide at summit; apex ±circular, cushion-shaped, radially 5-grooved; spines radiating and regularly positioned, typically 4+2 (but one of the radicular pair may be very reduced or absent), the longer c. 7 mm long, woolly at base. Seed horizontal; radicle centrifugal.
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