Description: Cushion forming, spinescent rosette shrublet up to c. 40 cm high, with a strong taproot and a shortly branched, woody caudex carrying several, closely neighbouring leaf rosettes, axils of the former and present rosette leaves with a persisting white-lanat
Habitat: dry coastal mattoral
Form of cushion | C | Hemispherical (dome shaped) cushion |
Compactness | 0 | Hollow, with canopy gaps |
Variability | 0 | No variability |
Root system | P | Single pivotal root |
Woodiness | 1 | Woody at base |
Thorniness | 1 | Yes |
Succulence | 0 | No |
Flowers | 0 | Flowers sessil |