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Shrubby perennial glaucous herb up to 30 cm. high, woody at base, with ascending, procumbent or creeping branches. Leaves 23–55 mm. long, alternate, subopposite or crowded in axillary fascicles on short side branches, linear, succulent, glaucous, subcylindrical, often with wart–like glands; stipules membranous, triangular, with somewhat divaricate acute or acuminate lobes, arising from the expanded membranous margins of the leaf–bases. Inflorescences with stout peduncles 4–10 cm. long, smooth or sometimes with a few obscure glandular warts. Flowers up to 4 mm. long, greenish or whitish, on pedicels up to 1 mm. long ascending at first but deflexed in fruit, more or less smooth. Perianth–segments 5, up to 4 mm. long, greenish or whitish, more or less smooth. Stamens 5. Fruit longer than perianth. Seeds brown, triangular in outline, smooth and shining, usually with a distinct ridge.