Pharnaceum croceum E.Mey. ex Fenzl

Annual or perennial herb with a tuft of leaves from a tap root. Leaves dark green or brownish, 1-5 cm long, linear, flat or rolled, often semicylindrical and more or less succulent, slightly sheathing at the base. Stipules mostly wanting on the outer leaves, on the inner 3-5 mm long, narrow, acute, cut in the upper part into rather distant narrow lobes or hairs. Inflorescence erect. Peduncles rather stout, 4-10 cm long, usually with a whorl of leaves at the top. Stipules at the inflorescence nodes more lacerate, with many hairs. Inflorescence dichasial, the branches again dichasial or pseudoracemose. Pedicels slender, 1-2 cm long, not deflexed. Perianth segments 3-4 mm long, pink yellow or red inside, reflexed at anthesis. Disc rather large, or 3 truncate usually orange lobes. Stigmas thick, cylindrical, bright orange. Fruit rounded, about as long as the perianth.