Compact perennial c. 30 cm high. Branches loosely woolly. Leaves slender, terete or semiterete, 10–15 mm long, dorsiventrally flattened at base, appressed-villous or eventually almost glabrous. Flowers solitary. Perianth tomentose. Stamens 5. Fruiting perianth pilose; attachment small, circular, c. 0.5 mm diam.; tube barrel-shaped to shortly cylindrical, rounded at base, c. 3 mm high and wide, faintly ribbed; limb erect, conical, c. 1.5 mm high, not hardened; spines 2+1 or 2+2, rarely 3+2; the 2 principal spines lateral, ascending to divergent c. 5 mm long; the radicular spines 1 or 2, adaxially placed, up to 1 mm long or reduced to a small tubercle. Seed horizontal; radicle ascending.
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