Erect, perennial to 30 cm high, silky-pilose all over. Leaves linear, 10–20 mm long, fleshy. Flowers solitary but clustered towards apex of branches. Perianth silky-pilose. Stamens 5. Fruiting perianth silky-pilose, hard; attachment basal, minute, c. 0.3 mm diam.; tube turbinate, 1–1.5 mm high, apex truncate, square; spines 3+2, ascending, 3–5 mm long, positioned at corners of apex, the radicular pair collateral, close together and frequently appearing to be of one spine. Embryo and radicle erect.
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