Woody perennial c. 25 cm high. Branches tomentose. Leaves semiterete, 10–20 mm long, fleshy, pilose. Flowers solitary. Perianth pilose. Stamens 5. Fruiting perianth pilose all over, readily detached; attachment basal, circular, concave, 0.4–1.2 mm diam.; tube turbinate, dorsiventally compressed, 1.5–3 mm long; limb erect, membranous; spines 3, rarely 4, two erect and lateral, c. twice length of tube and one (or 2 adjacent collateral) adaxial either erect and equal to lateral spines or divaricate and shorter. Seed and radicle erect.
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