Erect, glabrous shrub, up to 2 m high. Stems and branches smooth, glabrous. Flowers many, erect in each dense cladode fascicle; white.
Erect, glabrous shrub 1-2 m high, seeking support when very tall. Rhizome woody with many swollen main roots clustered around it. Stems smooth with short recurved spines below, spines suppressed above. Branches 1-several from an enlarged node, spreading, bearing numerous short branchlets terminating in globose cladode fascicles (often from twin buds). Cladodes ±127 cm a fascicle, more or less equal in size, ±15 mm long, deciduous, surrounded at base by 2 or 3 ovate, membranous bracts, pale green. Flowers profuse, in fascicles on young branches, usually appearing before cladodes are fully developed; tepals oblong, ±3 mm long, white; stalk ±5 mm long, articulated in lower half. Stamens with linear filaments and yellow anthers. Ovary with ±4 ovules in each locule; attenuate below; style and stigmas short. Berry probably ±12 mm in diameter.
Erect or scandent, spiny shrub to 2 m, stems with hooked spines below. Cladodes to 50 in fascicles. Flowers many in fascicles on young branches, tepals and filaments spreading.
Recorded from southern and eastern Cape, Natal (common in the Hlabisa district) and eastern Transvaal; also in Mozambique.