Description: Hummock-forming subshrub 15-30cm high and much wider, the old stems spiny, the spines being modified from the hardened pseudumbel rays
Habitat: on dry rocky limestone slopes and in open pinewoods on serpentine (high altitude phrygana)
Form of cushion | C | Hemispherical (dome shaped) cushion |
Compactness | 0 | Hollow, with canopy gaps |
Variability | 0 | No variability |
Root system | NA | NA |
Woodiness | 2 | Woody dwarf shrub |
Thorniness | 1 | Yes |
Succulence | 1 | Yes |
Flowers | 0 | Flowers sessil |