Duvalia parviflora N.E.Br.

Dwarf succulent forming mat 40-150 mm diam. Stems 10-25 mm long, 10-15 mm thick, decumbent, ellipsoidal to spherical, pale green to reddish; tubercles not distinguishable from surface of stem so that stem ± without angles to very slightly 4-angled, with minute leaf-rudiment up to 1 mm long subtended by minute stipular glands. Inflorescence usually in lower half of stem (occasionally towards apex), of 1-6 flowers developing in gradual succession; pedicel 3-10 mm long, 1.0-1.5 mm thick, spreading to ascending, holding flower facing upwards; sepals 2-3 mm long, 1 mm broad at base. Corolla 10-15 mm diam.; outside creamy green to pinkish; inside cream, sometimes green to pale brown towards tips of lobes but changing to cream towards their bases and on centre; annulus 1-2 mm tall, 3.5-5.0 mm broad, ± circular, somewhat constricted below (towards bases of lobes), with very fine papillae <0.5 mm long; lobes 3.5-6.0 mm long, 1.5-2.0 mm broad at base, folded along midrib (often not tightly) so linear acuminate to narrowly deltate, somewhat longitudinally rugulose, glabrous, eciliate. Corona 3.5-4.0 mm diam., cream to pale yellow; outer lobes forming pentagonal disc spreading at or just inside mouth of tube; inner lobes 0.8-1.0 mm long, obtuse, with ascending-spreading obtuse dorsal projections ±1 mm long.