Rounded perennial c. 20 cm high. Branches pubescent with short curled cottony hairs. Leaves linear to semiterete, 5–10 mm long, villous with simple hairs. Flowers solitary. Perianth shortly villous. Stamens 5. Fruiting perianth shortly and sparsely pilose; attachment oblique, circular or elliptic; tube shortly oblong, c. 1.5 mm high and wide, sometimes spreading at base, the adaxial surface concave, abaxial surface flat or convex; limb erect, c. 1 mm high; spines 2, laterally placed, ascending in nearly the same vertical plane, 4–7 mm long, rarely very reduced or absent; radicular tubercle very small and on adaxial side of one of the spines. Seed and radicle erect.
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