Plants low bushes, 30-80 cm tall, with rather erect, straight, woody branches, young leaf-bearing stems grey-green, twining occasionally and becoming up to 200 cm long. Leaves paired, petiolate; blades 7-30 mm long, 1-5 mm wide, linear to narrowly oblong or elliptic, bases usually rounded, tips rounded to acute. Inflorescences very slender; peduncles 3-7(-18) mm long; pedicels 1-3 mm long. Corollas white or greenish; lobes 1-2.5 mm long, about 1 mm wide, ovate; corona lobes about 0.75 mm long and 0.5 mm wide; gynostegia sessile, cylondrical. Follicles 2.5-5 cm long, narrowly lanceolatue in outline with attenuate beaks.
Blyttia fruticulosa grows in open Acacia-Commiphora bushland on sandy, silty, or rocky grouns at 10-1500 m. Blyttia fruticulosa was known from N1-3, C1-2, S1 and S2 in 2006. It grows in northeastern Africa and the Arabian peninsula.