Dwarf succulent, 75-150 mm high; unisexual, spineless, branching at base and rebranching above. Branches alternate, densely crowded above, 3-6 mm wide when dry, brittle at joints, internodes not tuberculate. Leaves absent or rudimentary. Flowers: involucres sessile or in subsessile cymes, clustered at ends of branches, glabrous outside; involucral glands with 5 subquadrate, ciliate lobes.