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Dwarf succulent, up to 60 mm high; spineless, with distinct, tuberous main root and 1 or 2 underground stems, each producing 6-9 branches from its apex at ± ground level. Branches 40-60 mm long, 3-4 mm thick (when dry) or much thinner, with tubercles not very prominent. Leaves rudimentary, deciduous. Flowers: peduncles deciduous; involucral glands with raised lip and 2-4 entire or bifid teeth or processes, whitish green, faintly red-spotted; Sep.
Cyathia 3 × 4 mm with cup-shaped involucres, glabrous; glands 2–2.5 × 1 mm, transversely elliptic, outer margins with 2–5 entire or bifid processes to 1 mm long, greenish-white often spotted with red; lobes 1 × 1.5 mm, rounded, ciliate.
Dwarf succulent, up to 60 mm tall, with tuberous main root and 1 or 2 underground stems, each producing 6 to 9 branches from its apex at ground level. Tubercles not very prominent. Peduncles deciduous. Flowers whitish green.
Cyathia produced towards the branch tips on non-persistent peduncles 5–10 mm long; bracts 3–8, obovate-oblong, scale-like, deciduous.
Seeds 3.5 × 2.8 mm, ovoid with truncate base and pointed apex, with scarcely prominent warts, greyish-brown.
Female flower: ovary glabrous; styles united for 2–2.5 mm, stigmas short, spreading.
Leaves 5–30 × 2 mm, linear, fleshy, crowded towards the branch tips.
Male flowers: bracteoles 2 mm long, laciniate; stamens 3 mm long.
Capsule c. 5 mm in diameter, obtusely lobed, sessile.
