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Sprawling or decumbent shrublet to 70 cm, not rooting at nodes. Segments 8-20 x 2-4 mm. Flowers in threes in terminal and lateral spikes. Erect or rarely decumbent, woody, jointed shrub, up to 700 mm tall, branches up to 30 mm thick, segments cylindrical to obconical, strongly succulent, 2-4 mm diam. when fresh and dried, sometimes becoming corky with age, leaf margin concave, spreading when dry. Flowers minute, in terminal and lateral, tapering, spike-like thyrses, slightly wider than vegetative segments. Erect or rarely decumbent, woody, jointed shrub, up to 700 mm tall, branches up to 30 mm thick, segments cylindrical to obconical, strongly succulent, 2-4 mm diam. when fresh and dried, sometimes becoming corky with age, leaf margin concave, spreading when dry. Flowers minute, in terminal and lateral, tapering, spike-like thyrses, slightly wider than vegetative segments.

Salt marshes and pans above the tidal zone. Edges of estuarine marshes and also inland on saline clayey alluvia of intermittent rivers, rarely also in inland saltpans. Edges of estuarine marshes and also inland on saline clayey alluvia of intermittent rivers, rarely also in inland saltpans.

Mouth of the Gariep to E Cape. Namaqualand to KwaZulu-Natal. Namaqualand to KwaZulu-Natal.