Astroloba foliolosa (Haw.) Uitewaal

Plant with slender, erect, leafy stems 10-30 cm tall, 2-3 cm in diam., slowly proliferous from the base. Leaves crowded, in 5 spiral rows, spreading, orbicular-deltoid and ending in a very sharp point, 12-15 mm long and wide, deep green in color, smooth and shining, face of leaves slightly concave, becoming flat with age, back of leaves somewhat obliquely keeled in the upper part, the slightly thickened margins and the keel cartilaginous, and crenulately roughened. Peduncle 30 cm and more tall, simple, slender; pedicels 2-5 mm long, the bracts about the same length; perianth about 12 mm long, greenish-white, with short, spreading, obtuse, whitish segments.