Duvalia angustiloba N.E.Br.

Dwarf succulent forming small mat 20-50 mm diam. Stems 8-30 mm long, 6-20 mm thick, decumbent, very short and ± spherical, green to purplish; tubercles 2-4 mm long, conical, fused near base into 4-5 obtuse obscure rows along stem with groove between them, abruptly narrowing into deltoid acute leaf-rudiment 1-2 mm long subtended by 2 stipular glands. Inflorescence arising in lower half of stem on short peduncle (<5 mm long), of 1-20 flowers opening in fairly rapid succession (often 2 or more open at once per inflorescence), bracts deltoid and 1 mm long; pedicel 10-40 mm long, 1 mm thick, usually ascending then descending and spreading on ground with upturned apex, holding flower facing upwards; sepals 2-3 mm long, 1 mm broad at base. Corolla 10-22 mm diam.; outside brownish green; inside red-to chocolate-brown (sometimes this colour speckled on cream to green); annulus 0.4-0.8 mm tall, 3.0-4.5 mm broad, pentagonal, somewhat constricted below, sometimes spotted, covered with fine papillae <0.5 mm long; tube <1 mm deep; lobes 4-9 mm long, 1.5-2.0 mm broad at base, somewhat longitudinally rugulose, tightly folded along midrib so narrowly linear for whole length and acute, margins with few papillae towards base, eciliate. Corona 2-3 mm diam., white to suffused with pink, often with several red-brown patches below inner lobes; outer lobes forming strongly pentagonal disc spreading at or just inside mouth of tube; inner lobes ±0.5 mm long, with obtuse spreading dorsal projection ±1 mm long.