Succulent shrublets, up to 0.6 m tall, with erect stems well-branched above and leafless below, 6-8 mm diam. Leaves crowded at branch tips, deciduous, trigonous-falcate, apiculate, 10-40 x 2-3 mm. Flowerheads crowded, mostly 1 or 51 mm shortly pedunculate corymbs nested among leaves, radiate, yellow; involucre cylindrical, 3-5 mm diam., bracts ± 8, 7-12 x ± 1 mm, bracteoles ± 3, subulate.
Thick-stemmed, succulent shrublet to 60 cm. Leaves cylindric, fleshy, crowded apically, pungent. Flower heads radiate, in dense corymbs nested in leaves, yellow.