Open perennial to 30 cm high, glabrous except axillary hairs. Leaves semiterete, c. 5 mm long, fleshy. Flowers solitary, glabrous. Perianth 3-lobed. Stamens 3. Fruiting perianth hard, cartilaginous, glabrous, straw-coloured; attachment broad; tube turbinate, c. 1.5 mm high, including the concave to hollowed base; spines 2(+2), horizontal, strongly flattened, oblong, acute, c. 4 mm long, the radicular pair contiguous or fused together; upper perianth flat or slightly sunken. Seed horizontal; embryo circular; radicle centrifugal.
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