Perennial herb, woody at base, c. 30 cm high. Branches closely tomentose. Leaves alternate, fleshy, semiterete, acute, 5–10 mm long, villous to silky. Flowers solitary but forming terminal leafy spikes. Fruiting perianth crustaceous (readily crushed), covered with long straight silky golden hairs c. 10 mm long; tube deeply cup-shaped, c. 2.5 mm high, with a thick truncate base; upper-perianth erect, c. 1 mm high, shortly 5-lobed, pubescent, soft; spines from 2 to 4+2, slender and weak, spreading, when present the four longer 8–15 mm long and the radicular pair somewhat shorter. Pericarp thin; style slender, glabrous. Seed horizontal, thick; embryo circular, radicle centrifugal.
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