phyllopodium have residual leaf bases (phyllopodia) which remain visible for several years.

Leaves are crowded at branch tips, erect to ascending, 5–40 mm long and 3–10 mm tick, ovate, linear-lanceolate to liner-oblanceolate, glabrous to glandular-hairy, coloured from bluish-green to heavily pink-tinged.

Inflorescences are finely branched thyrses to 7 cm tall and in diameter, with many dichasia each bearing 2–6 spreading to erect greenish yellow, tubular or swollen at base flowers, 6–8 mm long, 2.5 mm in diameter, laxly hairy, spreading and becoming recurved.

The flowers persist after blossoming, so they form a dense reticulate crown above branches and leaves, hence the species name.

[2][3] Succulent Karoo, quartz gravel flats of South Namibia and RSA (Northern and Western Cape).