Mesembryanthemum granulicaule

Procumbent perennial subshrub to c. 40 cm high; stems not jointed but retaining leaf-bases at nodes. Leaves terete, 4–15 mm long. Flowers usually numerous, often secund; pedicels 2–4 mm long (elongating in fruit); receptacle narrowly obconic; sepals 2–4 mm long, the outer 3 pointed and narrow, the inner obtuse and with broad membranous margins; petaloid staminodes white, shortly exceeding sepals. Capsule obovoid, half superior, 2–4 mm long and wide; keel of open locules with inflexed apical margins; seeds c. 0.8 mm long, minutely tuberculate. Flowers Sep.–Mar.