Adromischus alstonii (Schönl. & Baker F.) C.A.Sm.

Perennials with decumbent to prostrate stems up to 0.15 m long, often much branched, with fibrous roots. Leaves oblanceolate, rarely obovate, (30-)40-80(-110) x 20-35(-40) mm, cuneate, rounded and often mucronate, dorsiventrally flattened and with a horny margin usually restricted to the upper part, grey green and more or less covered with purple spots. Inflorescence a spike-like thyrse with 1,2(-3)-flowered cymes, 0.2-0.35(-0.5) m long, green to purple; pedicels 1-2(-3) mm long. Buds terete, abruptly tapering into apex, spreading. Calyx 1.5-2.5 mm long, grey-green. Corolla with cylindrical tube 9-12 mm long, green and more or less tinged brown; lobes broadly triangular, 1.5-2.5 mm long, cuspidate, rough and without trichomes, white to pale pink and with darker mucro. Anthers exserted. Squamae square, rarely transversely oblong, 0.9-1.1 mm long and broad, emarginate, broadest at about the middle or below.