Rounded perennial to 20 cm high. Branches woolly. Leaves slender, semiterete, 7–15 mm long, silky villous, fleshy. Flowers solitary. Perianth densely woolly villous. Stamens 5. Fruiting perianth closely woolly; tube oblong, c. 3 mm high and wide, curved upwards, dorsiventrally compressed, expanded into a hollow base with elliptic attachment c. 5 mm long; limb short, erect, obscured by indumentum; spines 2, lateral, parallel and erect, 1–3 mm long, somewhat obscured by indumentum; radicular tubercle prominent, adjacent to one of the spines. Seed and radicle oblique.
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