Crassula aphylla Schönland & Baker F.

Annuals 6-30 mm high, with one larger erect club-shaped branch and then repeatedly branching. Leaves apparently absent but in fact fused into a fleshy ring around upper part of each internode resulting in characteristic club-shaped segments, glabrous, green to brown. Inflorescence with terminal flower, rarely a cymule in the axil of a leaf due to sympodial growth, with 4-merous flowers. Calyx a fleshy ring c. 0.5 mm long with often indistinct obtuse lobes. Corolla shallowly cup-shaped, scarcely fused at base, white often tinged pink or red; lobes ovate-oblong, 1-2 mm long, usually obtuse, more or less recurved. Stamens with yellow to brown anthers. Squamae narrowly oblong, 0.3-0.5 x 0.1-0.2 mm, truncate or slightly rounded, gradually constricted downwards, fleshy, yellow.