Small dense shrub to 30 cm high. Branches loosely woolly. Leaves semiterete, flattened towards base, 5–10 mm long, acute, appressed-hirsute to glabrous, glossy; hairs medifixed with the ascending arm longer than the descending. Flowers solitary. Perianth moderately pilose. Stamens 5. Fruiting perianth hard, glossy; attachment slightly oblique, ±circular, depressed, c. 1.5 mm diam.; tube shortly turbinate, ribbed, c. 1.5 mm high and 2 mm broad at apex, glabrous; limb oblong, erect, exceeding tube, thin, sparsely pilose towards apex; spines 2 or 3, two of these opposite and divergent, 5–7 mm long, and one radicular 2.5 mm or less, or this reduced to a tubercle, the radicular canal produced into a flange which is decurrent down tube as a prominent rib. Seed erect.
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