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Spiny succulent subshrub to 1 m high, branched from the base, sparingly rebranched above.Branches 4-angled, c. 10 mm in diameter, usually tapered towards the base to 5–6 mm in diameter; angles sinuate with tubercles c. 15 mm apart along the margins.Spine shields to 10 mm long, narrowly decurrent ± to the flowering eye below; spines 5–8 mm long, widely divergent to ± deflexed; prickles c. 2 mm above the spines, 1–1.5 mm long, subparallel.Leaves c. 1 × 1.25 mm, deltate, deciduous.Cymes solitary, simple, subsessile; peduncle and cyme branches to 1 mm long, purplish; bracts c. 1 × 1.5 mm, subquadrate, rose-coloured.Cyathia 2.5 × 2.5–4 mm, with funnel-shaped involucres; glands c. 0.75 × 2 mm, elliptic, touching, greenish-yellow; lobes 0.75 × 0.75 mm, ± fan-shaped, shortly bilobed.Male flowers 10–15: bracteoles 2.5 mm long, filiform; stamens c. 3 mm long, anthers pinkish.Female flower: styles c. 2 mm long, shortly united, spreading, recurved, apices thickened.Capsule c. 2.75 × 3.5 mm, very obtusely lobed, eventually bright red; pedicel 1 mm long.Seed 1.75 × 1.5 mm, broadly ellipsoid, verrucose, orange-brown with scattered markings.

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Spiny succulent subshrub to 1 m high, branched from the base, sparingly rebranched above.Branches 4-angled, c. 10 mm in diameter, usually tapered towards the base to 5–6 mm in diameter; angles sinuate with tubercles c. 15 mm apart along the margins.Spine shields to 10 mm long, narrowly decurrent ± to the flowering eye below; spines 5–8 mm long, widely divergent to ± deflexed; prickles c. 2 mm above the spines, 1–1.5 mm long, subparallel.Leaves c. 1 × 1.25 mm, deltate, deciduous.Cymes solitary, simple, subsessile; peduncle and cyme branches to 1 mm long, purplish; bracts c. 1 × 1.5 mm, subquadrate, rose-coloured.Cyathia 2.5 × 2.5–4 mm, with funnel-shaped involucres; glands c. 0.75 × 2 mm, elliptic, touching, greenish-yellow; lobes 0.75 × 0.75 mm, ± fan-shaped, shortly bilobed.Male flowers 10–15: bracteoles 2.5 mm long, filiform; stamens c. 3 mm long, anthers pinkish.Female flower: styles c. 2 mm long, shortly united, spreading, recurved, apices thickened.Capsule c. 2.75 × 3.5 mm, very obtusely lobed, eventually bright red; pedicel 1 mm long.Seed 1.75 × 1.5 mm, broadly ellipsoid, verrucose, orange-brown with scattered markings.

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Spiny succulent subshrub to 1 m high, branched from the base, sparingly rebranched above.Branches 4-angled, c. 10 mm in diameter, usually tapered towards the base to 5–6 mm in diameter; angles sinuate with tubercles c. 15 mm apart along the margins.Spine shields to 10 mm long, narrowly decurrent ± to the flowering eye below; spines 5–8 mm long, widely divergent to ± deflexed; prickles c. 2 mm above the spines, 1–1.5 mm long, subparallel.Leaves c. 1 × 1.25 mm, deltate, deciduous.Cymes solitary, simple, subsessile; peduncle and cyme branches to 1 mm long, purplish; bracts c. 1 × 1.5 mm, subquadrate, rose-coloured.Cyathia 2.5 × 2.5–4 mm, with funnel-shaped involucres; glands c. 0.75 × 2 mm, elliptic, touching, greenish-yellow; lobes 0.75 × 0.75 mm, ± fan-shaped, shortly bilobed.Male flowers 10–15: bracteoles 2.5 mm long, filiform; stamens c. 3 mm long, anthers pinkish.Female flower: styles c. 2 mm long, shortly united, spreading, recurved, apices thickened.Capsule c. 2.75 × 3.5 mm, very obtusely lobed, eventually bright red; pedicel 1 mm long.Seed 1.75 × 1.5 mm, broadly ellipsoid, verrucose, orange-brown with scattered markings.