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Erect, stiff, herbaceous, spineless shrubs with thin, straight stems ±0.75-1.00 m high, ending in fern-like spreading branches bearing the cladode fascicles. Rhizome compact, with thin creeping stolons forming colonies. Roots terete. Stems 1-few, slender, glabrous, quadrate, green; branches slim, curved upwards. Cladodes 1-3(-7)-nate, filiform, ±4-15(-25) mm long, unequal, maturing after flowering. Flowers solitary, pendulous, along the branches; tepals reflexed above, ±5 mm long, inner broader than outer, with a few apical teeth, white; flower stalks ±7 mm long, articulated in lower half, elongating in fruit. Stamens erect, forming a column around ovary and style. Ovary globose with 4(-6) ovules in each locule; style just exserted at anthesis. Berry ±5 mm in diameter, red.
Erect herb or shrub to 1.5 m high, perennial. Roots fibrous. Cladodes 3–6 per axil, acicular, apiculate, (3–) 6–20 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide. Scale leaves reduced, lanceolate, not spine-like. Flowers single in axils, pendulous, 4–6 mm diam.; pedicels 7–12 mm long, articulated 5–8 mm from base. Sepals and petals (tepals) 3–4 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, spreading to reflexed, white or greenish white. Stamens 6, 2.5–3.5 mm long; filaments 1.5–2 mm long, white; anthers 0.5–1 mm long, yellow. Ovary ovoid, 2–2.5 mm long; style 1–2 mm long; stigma capitate or minutely trifid. Berry ovoid to globular, 4–6 mm diam., bright orange. Seed 1, 2.5–3.5 mm diam., black.
Erect shrub, up to 1 m high. Stems straight, slender, glabrous, green, with fern-like spreading branches. Spines absent. Cladodes 1-3 per fascicle, filiform, maturing after flowering, 4-15 mm long. Flowers solitary along branches, pendulous; pedicels ± 7 mm long, articulated in lower half. Flowering time Sept.-Jan. Fruit an orange to red berry.
Erect, stiff, herbaceous shrub, up to 1.4 m high. Roots terete. Stems erect with spreading branches, giving a fern-like appearance, glabrous and clearly quadrate. Spines absent. Cladodes (1)2-4(-7) in a fascicle, 5-15(-25) mm long. Flowers: solitary, pendulous, placed along branches; tepals white; Sep.-Jan. Fruit a berry.
Erect, stiff, herbaceous, spineless shrub, up to 1 m high. Stems erect with spreading branches, giving a fern-like appearance, glabrous and clearly quadrate. Cladodes (1)2-4(-7) in a fascicle, 5-15(-25) mm long. Flowers placed along branches. Flowers white.
A herb.
