Erect, sparingly branched evergreen succulent shrublets to 500 mm tall. Roots fibrous. Branches 8-9 mm in diameter, grey-green, the lower branches to 15 mm in diameter with smooth brownish bark becoming more woody with age; nodes 7-15 mm apart. Leaves crowded at the ends of the branches, decussate or rarely spirally arranged, ascending-spreading, dorsiventrally compressed 50-70 x 20-34 mm, cuneiform to cuneiform obovate; surface dull green and sparingly beset with glandular translucent hairs 0.5 mm long; margin at apical portion reddish, slightly undulating, minutely ciliate; petiole indistinct, base cuneate, apex obtuse, mucronate. Inflorescence is an ascending thyrse 220-280 mm long bearing 1-3 dichasia; peduncle with two pairs of bracts. Corolla pendent dull orange, 30 x 8 mm, the tube 24 mm long on pendent pedicles 15-30 mm long in bud 45 mm long; lobes lanceolate, 17 x 8 mm long becoming recoiled, their apices emarginate; surface glabrous except for a tuft of hairs where the filaments are fused to the tube. The corolla tube slightly bulges in the middle. Calyx lobes triangular, 5 mm long, 4-5 mm wide, sparingly ciliate, adnate to tube, green; anthers 1.5 x 1.5 mm yellow exposed for up to 5 mm; squamae transversely oblong 1 x 2 mm, and yellowish truncate at the apex; stamens 10, in two whorls, erect, yellowish-green, 35 mm, fused to the tube in lower third, with a dense tuft of hairs at the point of attachment. Carpels 5, tapering to slender styles 32-33 mm long. Flowering time: Autumn to early winter.
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