Branches sparsely rebranched, to 8–25 cm long, c. 5 mm in diameter, obtusely 4-angled; angles shallowly sinuate with tubercles 5–10 mm apart along the margins.
Cyathia c. 2 × 3 mm, with cup-shaped involucres; glands 1.25 × 0.75 mm, elliptic, separate; lobes 0.75 × 0.5 mm, rounded, denticulate.
Spiny succulent shrublet, procumbent to 15 cm high or suberect to c. 50 cm tall, branching from a thickened root.
Cymes solitary, simple, red; cyme branches 1 mm long; bracts 1 × 0.75 mm, oblong.
Male flowers: bracteoles 1.75 mm long, laciniate; stamens immature.
Female flowers: capsules and seeds not seen.
Leaves 0.75 × 0. 75 mm, deltoid, deciduous.