Divaricately branched perennial to 30 cm high. Branches velvety-tomentose. Leaves slender and semiterete, 5–15 mm long, spreading, villous. Flowers solitary. Perianth 4-lobed, woolly. Stamens 4. Fruiting perianth moderately to densely woolly; tube very shortly cylindrical, c. 2 mm high and 3 mm wide, divaricate or slightly ascending; base slightly oblique to horizontal; attachment broadly elliptic, c. 3–5 mm long, slightly concave; apex slightly convex; spines 3+2, spreading, the three longer c. 5–8 mm long, the radicular pair to 5 mm long with one longer than the other. Seed horizontal.
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