Sprawling, succulent, 20-75 x 15-100cm with a rosette of branches from a short, thick, tuberculate stem; branches ascending, tuberculate, 10-30mm across. Leaves on tubercles at branch tips, linear, fleshy, 3-30 x 1-2mm, deciduous; flowerhead solitary, 10-18mm across, glands 3-6-palmate, pale yellow.