Much-branched succulent shrublet with dense, curtain-forming, hanging stems up to 600 mm long. Its roots are fibrous and not succulent. The stems are initially soft and flaccid, ± 2 mm in diameter, whitish green (due to a powdery bloom) and the nodes are about 7-15 mm apart. The stems and leaves are at first sparsely beset with glandular hairs, becoming hairless with age (glabrescent). Its leaves are often crowded and highly succulent, in opposite pairs, pendent, the leaf blades (lamina) are elliptic to elliptic-egg-shaped (ovoid), 18-25 x 10-15 mm and 7-10 mm thick, the tip (apex) ending abruptly in a sharp point (mucronate), the base is wedge-shaped. The leaf surface is whitish grey-green due to the powdery bloom, the leaf margin is an attractive reddish colour. The short petiole is 1.5-2.0 mm long. The inflorescence is produced at the ends of the branches, it is branched and hanging and 50-90 mm long, with up to 4 flowers (sometimes only a single flower). The flower stalk is about 8-18 mm long and 2 mm in diameter. The flowers are bell shaped, orange-red 40-45 x 12-13 mm with a cylindrical tube slightly bulging in the middle. The lobes are spreading. Its 10 stamens are produced in two whorls, they are yellowish green and 18-20 mm long, fused into a tube in the lower third. The anthers (male parts) are spherical bearing yellow pollen. Flowering time is in midsummer.