Small shrub c. 30 cm high. Branches slender, densely woolly. Leaves slender, subterete, c. 5 mm long, sparsely cottony when young, otherwise glabrous. Flowers solitary. Perianth depressed, disc-like with a broad base, 5-lobed, sparsely cottony. Stamens 5. Fruiting perianth depressed-globular, c. 1.5 mm high and 2.5 mm wide (excluding spines), sparsely cottony; lower two-thirds hollow, radially divided into 5 cavities, 10-ribbed, the 5 intertepaline ribs developing narrow wings; upper third narrowed into a disc-like apex c. 1.5 mm wide from the margin of which arise 4+2 erect intertepaline processes and a very narrow undulate horizontal ring; processes slender, furcate, c. 1 mm high, the contiguous pair either side of the radicular split. Seed horizontal; radicle centrifugal.
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