Euphorbia loricata Lam.

Monoecious, glabrous, spinescent shrub to cushion-forming succulent, up to 0.15-1.50 m tall, stems 8-15 mm thick, cylindrical, tuberculate, covered with stout, often white, spinescent peduncles 12-50 mm long. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 25-75 x 3-10 mm, glaucous, deciduous. Cyathia many around apex of each branch, each on a persistent and later spinescent peduncle in axil of tubercle, with 5 entire, green glands. Capsule sessile, 6-8 mm diam., glabrous to puberulous.