Much-branched, rapid-growing shrublets with dense, curtain-forming, pendent stems up to 600 mm long (without inflorescence). Roots fibrous. Stems flaccid, ± 2 mm in diameter, whitish green owing to a powdery bloom, sparsely glandular-hairy, becoming glabrescent, continuously branching from nodes, lower branches up to 5 mm in diameter, with brownish peeling bark, becoming more woody with age; nodes 7-15 mm apart. Leaves crowded and highly succulent, decussate, spreading, pendent, lamina ellipsoidal to elliptic-ovoid, 18-25 x 10-15 mm and 7-11 mm thick, apex mucronate, base cuneate surface sparsely whitish grey-green owing to a powdery bloom, glandular-hair coming glabrescent; margin rounded and obscurely maroon-spotted and more so towards apex; petiole 1.5-2.0 mm Inflorescence a terminal, pendent thyrsi, 50-90 mm long, ending in a simple dichasium bearing 2-4 flowers, rarely with a solitary flower, but then also with distinct peduncle 25-30 mm long, a pair of smaller opposite bracts and 2 or 3 very small bracts alternately arranged; peduncle glandular-hairy, 30-40 mm long and 2 mm in diameter, with a leaf-like pair of linear-elliptic bracts 5-10 x 2.5 mm; pedicel 8-12(-18) mm long, glandular-hairy; receptacle funnel-shaped, 12 mm long, glandular-hairy. Calyx lobes green, triangular, 5 x 5 mm, adpressed to flower. Corolla orange-red, 40-45 x 12-13 mm; tube cylindrical, up to n20 mm long, slightly bulging in middle; lobes linear-lanceolate, 25 x 8 mm long and slightly longer than tube, spreading, but not recoiling. Stamens 10, in two whorls, erect, yellowish green, 18 and 20 mm long respectively, fused to tube in lower third a dense tuft of hairs at point of attachment; anthers spheroid, yellow, 1.5-2.2 mm long. Squamae yellowish green, transversely oblong, erect, 2 x 3 mm, sides rounded, apices sometimes slightly emarginate. Carpels 5, tapering to slender styles 20 mm long. Capsule pendent or becoming spreading but always pointed away from the cliff face. Flowering time: summer (December to January).
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Shrublet, much branched, pendent, flaccid with powdery bloom, ± 0.6 m long. Leaves elliptic to ovate, 18-25 x 10-15 mm, cuneate, mucronate, surface whitish grey-green with powdery bloom, glandular-hairy becoming glabrescent, margins rounded and maroon-spotted, more so at apex. Inflorescence a terminal pending thyrse, ending in simple dichasium with 1-4 flowers; peduncle 0.03-0.04 m long, glandular-hairy. Calyx: lobes triangular, 5 mm long, appressed to corolla. Corolla orange-red to red; tube cylindrical, 18-20 mm long, glabrous; lobes linear-lanceolate, spreading, 25 mm long. Flowering time Dec.-Feb.
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