Huernia thuretii J.F.Cels

Dwarf succulent forming dense clump 60-300 mm diam. Stems 15-60 mm long, 8-15 mm thick, decumbent, pale green to faintly mottled with reddish; tubercles 3-5 mm long, deltoid, spreading, laterally flattened and joined towards base into 4(-5) angles along stem, abruptly narrowing into fine spreading acute tooth. Inflorescences 1-3 per stem, each of 1-10 flowers developing in gradual succession on peduncle up to 15 mm long with few narrowly acute bracts 2-4 mm long; pedicel 7-25 mm long, 1.5-2.0 mm thick, ascending with spreading apex holding flower facing horizontally or upwards, green to purplish; sepals 3-7 mm long, 1 mm broad at base, narrowly ovate-attenuate, green. Corolla (8-)18-35(-45) mm diam., rotate beyond mouth of tube to campanulate; outside smooth to somewhat irregularly roughened, cream to reddish with 1 heavy (+2-4 lighter) raised longitudinal veins running down each lobe; inside cream to brownish, immaculate to spotted or concentrically barred with maroon, smooth in lower half of tube, rest sometimes covered (especially towards margins of lobes) with low conical papillae at most 1 mm long (densest and longest at mouth of tube) each sometimes with apical bristle (rarely up to 2 mm long); tube 4-7 mm long, 6-7 mm broad at mouth, subglobose to shortly cupular and somewhat constricted at mouth by thickening of corolla, sometimes with slight annular swelling around mouth; lobes ±5-8 mm long, 7-10 mm broad at base, erect to spreading, deltate, acute to slightly acuminate. Corona 3.5-4.0 mm tall, 3.5-5.0 mm broad, without basal stipe; outer lobes triangular to subquadrate, emarginate to deeply bifid, spreading on base of tube and fused to it towards base, maroon to blackish; inner lobes 1.5-2.5(-3.0) mm long, reddish to blackish, adpressed to backs of anthers for half anthers’ length then ascending and connivent sometimes diverging towards apices, dorsiventrally flattened with slight dorsal gibbosity at base, tapering gradually to ± terete bristly sometimes fine apex.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.