Small, fibrous-rooted, clump-forming, succulent perennial, with branches up to 0.2 m tall. Leaves sessile, circular to elliptic, dorsiventrally flattened and convex, grey-green, with margin indistinctly horny all around. Flowers in a spike-like, usually unbranched inflorescence; corolla tube 11-13 mm long, green, lobes 1-2 mm long, rough on inside.