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Slender, erect or twining shrubs up to 2 m high, leafless when flowering. Rhizome and roots unknown. Stems grey, finely striate with minute, conical, transparent papillae. Branches from nodes with multiple buds, annual (or biennial?). Cladodes hysteranthous, in fascicles of ±4, subtended by a small, narrowly linear bract, ±20-30 x 0.5 mm, with an indistinct keel. Flowering stems 300-500 mm long, naked, with 1-3 short simple racemes from each node; racemes compact, ±20-30 mm long; basal spine small, bracts small, semiovoid, apiculate, fringed, shiny brown; tepals ±3 mm long, white; pedicels 1.5 mm long, articulated at apex; disc swollen, flat. Stamens with filiform filaments and blackish purple anthers. Berry 6 mm in diameter, dark.
Climbing or erect herb or shrub to 2 m; branches glabrous to scabrid, pale grey, with spines 3– 10 mm long.. Cladodes in fascicles, subulate, 7– 20 mm long and < 0.5 mm in thickness, absent at the time of flowering.. Inflorescence racemose; raceme solitary or paired, 1.2– 4.5 cm long, scabrid; bracts ovate, 0.5– 1 mm long; pedicels solitary or paired, 1.5– 2.5 mm long, articulated at the apex.. Tepals white to cream, oblong to obovate, ± 3 mm long, ± equal; stamens 6, slightly shorter than the perianth parts; anthers black; ovary 3-locular with 4– 6 ovules in each locule; style 0.75– 1 mm long, 3-branched.. Berry red, globose, ± 6 mm in diameter, 1– 2-seeded.
Slender, erect or twining shrub, up to 2 m high. Cladodes produced after flowers, in fascicles of ± 4, ± 20-30 x 0.5 mm, with an indistinct keel. Pedicels 1.5 mm long, articulated at apex. Flowers white.
