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Dwarf succulent, 20-75 mm high; spineless, main stem subterranean, with tips of branches forming cushion-like mass, up to 1 m or more in diameter. Branches densely crowded, with spiralled tubercles, 3-4 mm in diameter, older branches becoming buried. Leaves rudimentary, deciduous. Flowers: cyathia solitary; peduncles deciduous, never persisting after 1 season; involucral glands subentire, minutely toothed or with subulate processes, yellow.
Dwarf, glabrous succulent, up to 50 mm high, forming a dense cushion 0.15-1.00 m in diam., with many short branches above a stout, hidden, subterranean stem, branches shortly truncate-clavate, 8-20 mm thick, tuberculate. Leaf-rudiments 1-2 x ± 1 mm, ovate. Cyathia sessile, 5-6 mm in diam.; glands 5, green to bright yellow, ± entire to short processes on outer margin. Flowering time Oct.-Jan. Capsule 6-7 mm in diam., glabrous.
Dwarf succulent, up to 75 mm tall, forming a flat-topped or, with age, a slightly convex mass up to 75 mm tall in centre and 75-300 mm in diameter, composed of densely crowded branches. Flowers yellow.
A herb.
