Decumbent to erect, succulent shrublet, up to 0.25 m tall, stems with conspicuous internodes, with dome-shaped or warty bladder-cells. Leaves free from each other, without a mucro. Flowers solitary or rarely several together on shorter side shoots, 5-8 mm diam., pale yellow or cream, filamentous staminodes conically arranged. Fruit 5-locular.
Dwarf shrub, sometimes short-lived, succulent, up to 0.25 m high. Stems decumbent or erect; constricted at nodes, green, with persistent, succulent, primary cortex. Leaves linear, up to 20 mm long. Flowers: solitary or a few per cyme; corolla 5-8 mm in diameter, petals pale yellow. Fruit 5-locular.
Leaves slender and rounded. Stems with at least partly persistent, green, succulent stems. Decumbent to erect annual or biennial to 25 cm, branches with dome-shaped bladder cells. Flowers 1-few, pale yellow or cream-coloured. Fruits 5-locular.