Monoecious, mostly single-stemmed succulent to 50 cm; stem cylindrical-clavate, 30-40 mm diam., tuberculate, pale green. Leaves 10-70 x 1-2 mm, deciduous. Cyathia 1-3 per peduncle in axillary clusters of 1-5, with many, slender, leaf-like bracts to 100 x 2-4 mm, 8-10 mm diam., glands with 3-5-branched processes 2-4 mm long, red.