Dicrocaulon spissum N.E.Br.

Rather robust, succulent shrub, up to 300 mm tall, 200 mm diam., short-shoots densely covered with remnants of old leaf sheaths. Leaf-pairs dissimilar in shape, smooth and glossy, corpuscle of first leaf-pair of season 8-11 mm long, 6-7 mm diam., second leaf-pairconnate for ± ? of its length, up to 16 mm long, 7-8 mm diam. Flowers without a cup-shaped structure underneath calyx, sepals 5, petals white. Fruit 5-locular.