Duvalia maculata N.E.Br.

Dwarf succulent forming mat 30-150 mm diam. Stems 10-40(-60) mm long, 6-12(-18) mm thick, decumbent, mostly short, green to purplish; tubercles 2-5 mm long, conical, fused near base into 4-5 angles along stem, tapering gradually into deltoid acute leaf-rudiment 1-3 mm long subtended by 2 glandular stipular denticles. Inflorescence arising mainly in lower half of stem, of 1-8 flowers developing in fairly rapid succession from small peduncle up to 8 mm long, with numerous bracts 1-2 mm long; pedicel 10-25 mm long, 1.0-1.5 mm thick, spreading with erect apex, holding flower facing upwards close to ground; sepals 3-4 mm long, 1 mm broad at base. Corolla 15-25 mm diam.; outside pale green to brownish; inside purplish, reddish to yellowish brown, somewhat shiny on lobes; annulus 1.5-2.5 mm tall, 5-8 mm broad, often pentagonal, often heavily indented around rim, somewhat constricted towards base (just above bases of lobes), almost completely containing corona, cream to white speckled with pale brown, covered with fine papillae < 0.5 mm long; lobes 5-10 mm long, 3-5(-6.5) mm broad at base, often with few short straight hairs up to 2.5 mm long near base, tightly folded along midrib so linear-acute. Corona 3.0-3.6 mm diam., bright to dull yellow (speckled with brown) to pale orange; outer lobes forming circular to slightly pentagonal disc spreading ± at level of middle of tube and completely contained in it; inner lobes ±0.5 mm long, with obtuse ascending to spreading dorsal horn ±1 mm long.