Monoecious, many-stemmed, spineless, glabrous, succulent shrub, up to 0.3 x 0.5 m, stems cylindrical, 30-75 mm thick, covered with spirally arranged, conical tubercles up to 8 mm long. Leaves soon deciduous, oblanceolate-spathulate, 10-25 x 3-6 mm, sessile. Cyathia many around apex of each branch, several on each persistent and later woody peduncle 70-250 mm long in axil of tubercle, 6-8 mm diam., with 4 green glands each with 3-6 yellow teeth on outer margin. Capsule exserted on decurved pedicel, ± 7 mm diam., glabrous.
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