Euphorbia hamata Sweet

Dioecious, spineless, glabrous succulent, up to 0.5 x 0.6 m, branches 6-20 mm thick, with prominent tubercles, loosely arranged in 3 angles, green to red. Leaves deciduous, ovate to lanceolate, 8-20 mm long, ± sessile, slightly fleshy. Cyathia solitary and terminating each branch, subtended by 3 prominent bracts 6-10 x 4-10 mm, 5-7 mm diam., with 5 yellow to red glands each minutely toothed on outer margins. Capsule sessile, 6 mm diam., glabrous.