Huernia loeseneriana Schltr.

Small succulent forming dense mats of tightly packed stems up to 1 m diam. Stems 15-60(-80) mm long, 10-15 mm thick, erect, grey-green to brown; tubercles 3-5 mm long, spreading, deltoid, laterally flattened towards base and joined into 4(-5) wing-like angles along stem, tapering into acute (when young) slightly darker tooth. Inflorescence of 1-5 flowers developing in gradual succession, arising in lower half of stem from small peduncle with slender acuminate bracts 2-6 mm long without lateral teeth; pedicel 3-10 mm long, 1.0-1.5 mm thick, spreading and holding flower facing horizontally or slightly downwards; sepals 6-8 mm long, narrowly ovate-acuminate. Corolla 18-26 mm diam., campanulate; outside finely papillate, pale pink to brownish, with 3-5 raised longitudinal veins running down each lobe; inside cream with brown to maroon concentric broken lines becoming denser towards base of tube and solid brown to red around corona, with obtuse conical dorsiventrally flattened papillae from just below middle of tube to mouth and onto lobes (max. length of ±1 mm at mouth of tube), each with small apical bristle; tube 7-9 mm long, 7-10 mm broad at mouth, cylindrical, cupular, slightly broader than long; lobes 5-8 mm long, 6.5-9.0 mm broad at base, spreading with apices often recurved, deltate, acute. Corona 3.5-4.0 mm tall, 3-5 mm broad, without basal stipe; outer lobes ±1 mm long, subquadrate to notched at apex, dark maroon; inner lobes 1.5-2.0 mm long, shiny maroon spotted with cream around base, becoming maroon above, adpressed to backs of anthers for their lower half, somewhat dorsiventrally flattened and broadened into transversely gibbous base, linear, above connivent-erect to slightly diverging at obtuse slightly swollen and bristly apex.