Glabrous, fleshy dwarf shrubs, 20-50 cm. Stems ascending to erect, much branched; branches with short, thick, cylindrical to club-shaped internodes ending with 2 opposite scales about 1 mm. long. Inflorescences spike-like, lateral and terminal, sessile, opposite, cone-like or globular to oblong. Bracts of flower-clusters reniform to orbicular, fall after flowering. Perianth about 1.5 mm. Seeds 0.5-1 mm., compressed, brown, smooth to minutely tuberculate. Fl. May-September.