Shrubs with sprawling branches, woody stems 15-40 cm high, young internode covered by short, white, appressed hairs, older internode glabrous and pale; leaves alternate, obovate, narrowing into a short petiole, folded upwards, 5-15 mm long, 3-6 mm broad; flowers on short shoots. apparently solitary, perigone with scattered uppressed hairs outside, glabrous inside, 3-6 mm long, stamens numerous; fruit obovoid, longer than wide, rounded at the top, 5 locules. (from Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Aizoaceae A-E, HEK Hartmann)