Rounded perennial to 25 cm high. Branches glabrous, glossy, the older ones bearing raised leaf scars. Leaves crowded towards branch apices, very narrowly oblong to narrowly ovate, rounded below, 4–7 mm long, fleshy, hirsute. Flowers solitary. Perianth glabrous except sparsley pubescent lobes. Stamens 5. Fruiting perianth glabrous except pubescent limb; attachment slightly oblique; tube dorsiventrally compressed, ±square, c. 1.5 mm high and wide, ribbed; limb small, erect; spines slender, 2+2 or 2+1; abaxial pair laterally placed, ascending, c. 10 mm long; adaxial radicular pair placed close to one of the lateral spines, the longer c. 2.5 mm long, the shorter c. 0.5 mm long or reduced to a small tubercle. Seed and radicle erect.
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