Perennial herb, succulent, up to 5 or more rosettes, recurved, appressed leaves, leaf pairs spirally arranged, old ones remaining on stem, ± 0.07 m high when flowering. Leaves broadly obovate, 15-35 x 10-32 mm, rounded and mucronate, glabrous with marginal cilia, glaucous-green. Inflorescence a round-topped thyrse, dichasia clustered; flowers many, sessile or pedicellate; peduncle distinct, 35 mm long; bracts lanceolate. Calyx fleshy, acute ending in bristle, glabrous, marginal cilia, green. Corolla tubular, scarcely fused, white tinged pink; lobes oblong-oblanceolate, 7.0-15.0 mm long, obtuse, ascending-spreading. Flowering time Sept.-Dec.
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Like C. hemisphaerica but leaves broadly obovate, flowers in a rounded thyrse, petals 7 mm long and anthers black.