Dense rounded perennial to 20 cm high, glabrous except slight pubescence in leaf axils. Branches marked by slightly raised leaf scars. Leaves fusiform, 3–5 mm long, fleshy, passing at base into a very short flattened petiole. Flowers solitary. Perianth glabrous except slight pubescence on lobes. Stamens 3. Fruiting perianth glabrous; attachment slightly oblique, circular, c. 1 mm diam.; tube shortly cylindrical (slightly dorsiventrally compressed), c. 1.5 mm high and wide; limb very small and slightly sunken; spines 2+2, slender; abaxial spines laterally placed, ascending, 6–8 mm long; adaxial radicular spines close together, c. 1 mm and 0.5 mm long, placed equidistant between the lateral spines. Seed and radicle erect.
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