Pectinaria articulata (Aiton) Haw.

Stems 10-150 mm long, 12-25 mm thick, prostrate usually with upturned apex; tubercles tapering to soft or sometimes slightly hardened point. Pedicel 1.5-15.0 mm long, 0.75-1.25 mm thick, usually spreading, often slightly fluted towards apex; sepals 2.0-2.5 mm long, acute. Corolla 5-8 mm long, 5-11 mm diam., bud-like, truncate and flat-topped to conical, maroon to cream inside and outside; outside with scattered obtuse papillae; inside densely covered with translucent crystalline bristly papillae increasing in length towards centre of flower to reach max. at level of corona lobes then abruptly disappearing towards base of tube behind corona; tube 1.5-5.0 mm long, broadly and shallowly conical to hemispherical, containing gynostegium; lobes 4-6 mm long, incumbent over tube and joined at tips leaving only narrow openings between them to inside of flower, ± deltate, with margins folded back so that strongly convex inside. Corona ±1.5 mm tall, 2-3 mm broad, bright yellow to dark maroon, raised on obtusely pentagonal stipe up to 0.5 mm long; outer lobes 0.5-1.0 mm long, erect to spreading, bifid in upper half into terete obtuse slightly diverging lobules, laterally fused in lower half to bases of inner lobes, pectinate portion behind inner lobes with ridge of horizontally spreading to ascending obtuse teeth; inner lobes 0.3-0.5 mm long, deltoid, obtuse to truncate.

It is a subtropical plant.

The plant is pickled and eaten.