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Erect, tangled shrub, up to 3 m tall, stems arched. Leaves semi-succulent to succulent, solitary or in dense clusters, oblong-elliptic, 10-35 mm long. Flowers bisexual, tubular to narrowly funnel-shaped, 10-16 mm long, dirty white to greenish cream, lobes dark violet, spreading, calyx small. Berries red, narrowly ellipsoidal, 5-6 mm long.
Leaves in clusters of 3–9, subsessile or with a petiole up to (4)5(8) mm long; lamina blue-green to yellowish-green, semi-succulent, 10–30(50) × 3–8(11) mm, narrowly obovate to oblong-elliptic or narrowly lanceolate, apex rounded to acute, with microscopic, short glandular hairs.
Stems curved to somewhat pendulous, glabrous; spines smooth, slender, 5–10(40) mm long; bark pale grey or creamy-white on young stems to dark brown on the older ones.
Calyx 3–5 mm long, with vesture as on pedicels; tube tubular-campanulate, 1.5–2.5 mm wide; lobes subequal or unequal, 0.8–5 mm long, triangular, acute, erect.
Stamens unequal, attached from a third above the base to the middle of the corolla tube, all exserted; filaments 12–14 mm long, pilose at the base.
Flowers hermaphrodite, 5-merous, erect to slightly pendulous; pedicels 4–6(11) mm long, with vesture as on leaves.
Fruit red or orange-red, sometimes black, (5)6(10) × 3–5 mm, oblong-ellipsoid to ovoid, apiculate.
Ovary 1.5–2 mm long, conical, apiculate; style 13–17(22) mm long, exserted.
Erect, profusely branched shrub 0.9–3 m high.
Seeds 2 × 1.5 mm, reniform.
Disk inconspicuous, green.
