Rounded shrub c. 30 cm high. Branches velvety. Leaves linear, trigonous, to 30 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, silky, succulent. Flowers in pairs. Perianth pubescent, 5-lobed. Stamens 5. Fruiting perianth hard, sparsely pubescent; base solid, truncate, c. 1.5 mm high and wide; attachment circular, c. 2 mm diam.; tube shortly cylindrical, c. 1 mm high, bearing two series of appendages; antetepaline appendages 5, erect, lanceolate, 2–3 mm long, spiny; intertepaline appendages 4–12 recurved, fan-shaped, c. 3 mm long, fimbriate with pungent spines. Seed horizontal; radicle centrifugal.
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