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Succulent shrub, 1.0-1.5 m high; spineless, much branched, glabrous, yellowish green. Branches fairly flexible, fleshy, alternate, secondary branches up to 10 mm wide, with leaf scars, flowering branchlets 3-5 mm wide. Leaves alternate, soon deciduous, sessile, narrowly ovate, 5-15 x 2-5 mm. Flowers: in terminal cyathia, umbellate with 5-7 rays or in cymes with peduncles or rays 4-24 mm long; bracts ciliate; involucral glands 5-8, yellow; Aug.-Oct. Fruit a capsule, usually exserted by 3-6 mm.
Succulent, spineless, glabrous shrub, up to 2 m tall, much-branched above ground, branches 3-6 mm diam., terete, usually bright yellow-green. Leaves soon deciduous, sessile, lanceolate, 5-15 x 2-5 mm. Cyathia terminal, sessile male cyathia up to 15 mm diam., surrounded by 5-7 bisexual cyathia, ± 7 mm diam., on rays 6-10 mm long, with 5-8 yellow glands. Capsule usually exserted by 3-6 mm, 5-6 mm diam., glabrous.
Monoecious, much-branched, succulent shrub to 2 m; stems terete, 3-6 mm diam., bright green. Leaves sessile, 8-15 x 3-5 mm, lanceolate, deciduous. Cyathia usually in terminal cymes with subsessile male surrounded by 5-7 bisexual cyathia, 7-15 mm diam., glands entire, yellow.
