Small shrub c. 30 cm high. Branches closely woolly. Leaves linear to narrowly elliptic, 6–10 mm long, obtuse, fleshy, closely woolly to oppressed pilose, the hairs minutely scabridulous. Flowers solitary. Perianth shortly and closely woolly. Stamens 5. Fruiting perianth closely woolly; attachment basal, narrowly elliptic, c. 4 mm long, shortly spurred along stem above and below tube; tube broadly oblong, c. 2 mm high; limb erect but inconspicuous; spines 2, obliquely spreading in different vertical planes, the radicular spine inclined abaxially and the other adaxially, c. 5 mm long, tomentose towards base; radicular tubercle small at base of abaxial spine. Seed and radicle erect.
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