Pectinaria longipes (N.E.Br.) Bruyns

Stems 15-100 mm long, 10-20 mm thick, prostrate with upturned apices, green to brownish green; tubercles tapering into small acute rarely hard tooth. Pedicel 4-35 mm long, 0.7-1.2 mm thick, erect holding flower facing upwards to erect becoming horizontal near apex to hold flower facing horizontally; sepals ±2 mm long, shortly acute, slightly papillate beneath. Corolla 6-16 mm diam., rotate; outside pale green, smooth; inside yellow becoming slightly paler towards centre, smooth; tube <1 mm long, broad and shallow and just containing gynostegium; lobes 2.5-6.0 mm long, 1.5-3.0 mm broad at base, spreading, deltate to broadly ovate-deltate, acute, ± flat above with margins not or only slightly folded back. Corona 1 mm tall, 2.0-2.2 mm broad, deep yellow or red, raised on obtusely pentagonal stipe <0.5 mm long; outer lobes ±0.5 mm long, ascending, bifid (sometimes only notched towards apex) into narrowly deltoid to terete obtuse spreading to erect lobules, with pectinate portion behind inner lobes divided into numerous small spreading obtuse lobules or emarginate; inner lobes ±0.25 mm long or less and so short as to leave most of backs of anthers exposed, deltoid, obtuse.