Huernia stapelioides Schltr.

Small succulent forming clumps of loosely packed stems up to 0.5 m diam. Stems 15-80 mm long, 10-15 mm thick, erect to spreading; tubercles laterally somewhat flattened and joined into 4(-5) obscure to wing-like angles along stem. 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 8-12(-18) mm long, 1.0-1.5 mm broad at base, spreading and holding flower facing horizontally or slightly downwards; sepals 8-10 mm long, narrowly ovate-acuminate. Corolla 30-42 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 mottled papillae up to 2.5 mm long with minute apical bristle; tube ±1.5 times as broad as long, cupular; lobes ±1.5 times as long as broad, spreading with apices often recurved, deltate, slenderly acuminate. Corona 4-6 mm tall, 3-5 mm broad, without basal stipe; outer lobes ±1 mm long, subquadrate to notched at apex, dark maroon; inner lobes 2.5-3.0 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 to bristly and swollen to inverted foot-shaped apex.