Clump-forming, fibrous-rooted, succulent perennial, with branches up to 1,2 tall. Leaves nearly sessile, oblanceolate, dorsiventrally flattened, grey-green, sometimes red-spotted, margin horny in upper half. Flowers in a spike-like, usually unbranched inflorescence, corolla tube 11-13 mm long, green, lobes 2-3 mm long, rough on inside.
Succulent Like ?. hemisphaericus but leaves with a small apical point and with sharply edged margin.