This species is a low-growing succulent with grey, trailing branches and squat, cylindrical or barrel-like leaves.

[2] The yellow, daisy-like flowers grow on long stalks.

[2] The specific epithet, clavifolia, is from the Latin words clava meaning a club and folia meaning leaves, referring to the club-shape of the leaves.

This species is found from the northwest of the Richtersveld where the sandveld meets the Gariep River towards the southern Namibian coast.

[2] This succulent is found in sandy deserts sometimes growing among rocks.