Aloinopsis spathulata (Thunb.) L.Bolus

Compact, dwarf succulent, with a thick, truncate rootstock broadening and splitting into several erect branches at top, with 2 or 3 leaf-pairs to a branch, forming a rosette. Leaves flat and wide, erect, warts moderately developed, 10-20 x 8-10 mm, 2.5-3 mm thick. Flowers without bracts, 25-30 mm diam., calyx lobes 5, petals ?pink or ?white. Fruit raised in centre at top, closing bodies absent or tiny but with a bulge in their place, valve wings narrowing into awns distally, 10-or 11-locular.