Small shrub c. 50 cm high. Branches tomentose when young. Leaves slender, semiterete, 10–15 mm long, somewhat sigmoid (at least when young) with the apex recurved, densely tomentose. Flowers solitary. Perianth tomentose. Stamens 5. Fruiting perianth tomentose; tube cylindrical, c. 2 mm high and wide, somewhat dorsiventrally compressed; base oblique; attachment elliptic; limb erect, c. 1 mm long; spines 2+1 or 2, tomentose, the lateral pair to 4 mm long, divergent, the radicular spines 1 or 2, adaxial, c. 1 mm long. Seed erect.
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