Perennial shrub with thick, erect, little-branched stems, 0.3 m in diam., 0.3-0.4 m high, covered with yellow-brown peeling bark. Leaves on tip of branches, linear, oblanceolate, 15-40 x 3-10 mm, cuneate, obtuse, terete, glandular-pubescent to glabrous. Inflorescence a persistent thyrse with 1-3 monochasia, each with 2-6 glandular-pubescent, erect flowers; peduncle 0.05-0.10 m long. Corolla: tube cylindrical to urn-shaped, yellowish green sometimes with brown-purple where petals are fused, 6-8 mm long, with fine hairs on lobes. Flowering time Oct.-Jan.
Much-branched succulent, up to 0.3 m tall, sometimes with short leaf-bases. Leaves dry at flowering, linear to obovate, terete (rarely dorsiventrally flattened), 15-50 x 2-10 mm, glandular-pubescent to glabrous. Flowers in a twiggy, divaricately-branched inflorescence, mostly glandular-pubescent, with peduncle 30-100 mm long, usually persistent, corolla tube 6-8 mm long and cylindrical, yellow-green to brown, lobes 3-5 mm long, yellow to pink.
Succulent shrublet with thick, peeling stems to 30 cm. Leaves dry at flowering, abscising, oblanceolate. Flowers in a twiggy, divaricately branched cyme, urn-shaped, yellowish, tube 6-8 mm.