Perennial herb to 30 cm high, very sparsely pubescent with short cottony hairs to hirtellous. Leaves narrowly ellipsoidal to almost linear, c. 4 mm long, fleshy. Flowers solitary. Perianth sparsely pubescent. Stamens 3. Fruiting perianth hard, sparsely pubescent; attachment circular, c. 3 mm diam., truncate, often on a slightly raised scar; tube depressed-globose with a broad base, c. 1.5 mm high and 2.5 mm wide; apex convex; limb a narrow ridge; spines 4+2, c. 2 mm long, spreading, the radicular pair shorter and unequal arising from a short radicular spur. Embryo horizontal.
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