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Erect or scrambling, glabrous shrubs ±1-2 m high, with short, strongly zigzagging inter-nodes (or upper branches straight in forma ecklonii), the skin peeling off as white membranes. Rhizome typical, bearing numerous roots with fusiform swellings up to 0.2 m long in upper part, cylindrical below. Stems, branches and branchlets with short, divaricate internodes in forma exuvialis, or with the upper flowering branches long, straight and supple in forma ecklonii. Spines minute or absent. Cladodes deciduous, absent or immature at anthesis, filiform, lengthening with age, up to 30 mm long and in time multiplying in each fascicle. Flowers 2, divergent, placed at nodes on outside of immature cladode fascicle, in forma ecklonii 2-6-nate, with the long, young, upper branches and branchlets appearing racemose, tepals narrowly oblong, ±4 mm long, yellow or white, opening in the morning, closing early; stalk 3-6 mm long, articulated near middle. Ovary with 4 ovules in each locule; ovoid. Berry red or orange, ±10 mm in diameter.
Erect or scrambling shrub, 0.5-2 m tall, stems zigzagged, epidermis white, membranous and peeling off and exposing dark grey stems, spines minute or absent. Cladodes in fascicles, filiform. Flowers 2-6 clustered in axils, tepals and filaments spreading.
Erect or scrambling shrub, 0.5-2 m, stems with white membranous bark, sometimes with minute spines. Cladodes in fascicles, filiform. Flowers 2-6 in axils, tepals and filaments spreading.
A shrub. It can be erect or scrambling. It grows 1-2 m tall. The branches zig-zag. The rhizome has many roots with swellings 20 cm long. There are 2 flowers.
