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Succulent woody liane or erect or sprawling subshrub. Stems to 6 mm diam., with brachysclereids in cortical tissue; flower-bearing stems 2–5 mm diam. Leaves vestigial, caducous. Inflorescence a racemose cyme; peduncle obsolete. Flowers 2.5–3 mm long, 9–10 mm diam.; pedicels 4–10 mm long. Corolla rotate, cream to cream-green; lobes lanceolate-ovate to ovate, 4–6 mm long, 1.9–3.6 mm wide, l:w ratio 1.7–2.8, glabrous. Annular corona absent; staminal corona cream to cream-green; lobes 1.3–1.5 mm long, 0.8–1 mm wide. Follicles fusiform, 5–8 cm long.
Perennial, succulent shrub, a crawler or climber, 0.2-5.0 m high. Leaves rudimentary. Flowers in lateral or terminal, sessile umbels, cream-coloured to yellowish green. Sepals ovate. Corolla rotate, deeply lobed, lobes 4-6 x 1.9-3.6 mm. Corona in 2 series, whitish, shorter than staminal column; outer corona consisting of free lobes; inner corona connate. Flowering time Dec.-Mar. Follicles narrowly fusiform, 78-180 x 6-14 mm, light brown.
Leafless, succulent scrambler or climber to 3 m, with smooth, grey-green stems; sap milky. Flowers in dense umbels, yellow, corona white, inner lobes swollen and incumbent on anthers and outer ring-like, fragrant.
Trailing or twining perennial shrub with succulent, leafless stems becoming woody. Umbels lateral and terminal, sessile; many-flowered. Flowers greenish white or sulphur-coloured.
A succulent shrub. It does not have leaves.
