Rounded perennial, glabrous except axillary pubescence. Leaves terete, c. 10 mm long. Flowers solitary, glabrous outside except ciliate perianth lobes. Stamens 3. Fruiting perianth glabrous, somewhat dorsiventrally compressed, oppressed to branch, cuneate-oblong, c. 2.5 mm long, firmly attached but eventually falling, straw-coloured; base slightly concave; attachment very oblique, ovate, slightly 2-spurred; spines 4 (the inner of the radicular pair much smaller than the others), spreading, slender, the three longer 5–15 mm long (two spreading laterally and in line, one abaxially), the small inner radicular spine straight and parallel with its neighbour, 1–3 mm long; limb incurved. Seed erect; radicle erect.
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