Description:Hemispherical cushion-forming shrublet 15-50cm high, with robust tangled "barbed wire" spines, these bleaching brown and aging to bone-coloured
Habitat:in dry puna, including the margins of saltpan lagoons (salares), bare stonefields, gentle sandy hills and bunchgrass moorland at 2500-4400m
| 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 | 0 | No |
| Flowers | NA | NA |