Quaqua cincta (C.A.Lückh.) Bruyns

Small succulent forming clump 60-300 mm diam. Stems 50-250 mm long, 15-20 mm thick, erect, purplish green; tubercles 3-6 mm long, conical spreading, joined towards bases into 4 angles along stem, each tipped with sharp hardened yellowish tooth. Inflorescences of 1-2 usually successively opening flowers towards tips of stems; pedicel 4-12 mm long, <1 mm thick, usually ascending and holding flower facing upwards; sepals 2-3 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, acute. Corolla 14.5-21.0 mm diam., rotate; outside purple in upper half of lobes changing to cream to pale green below, with raised purple stripe down middle of lobe; inside dark purple to purple-brown on lobes (occasionally purple-brown spotted on cream towards base of lobes), below lobes and on sides of tube with 3 concentric rings of purple-brown on cream, base of tube cream, glabrous and smooth; tube 1.2-2.0 mm deep, broadly conical, containing column, with corolla slightly thickened at mouth; lobes 5.5-8.0 mm long, 3-5 mm broad at base, spreading, margins slightly folded back, with spathulate cilia up to 2 mm long except near tips and base. Corona 3.3-4.5 mm diam., dark purple becoming yellow towards base (sometimes yellow only with purple margins), raised on very short stipe (<0.25 mm long); outer lobes 0.7-1.5 mm long, ascending-spreading, deeply bifid into diverging and somewhat dorsiventrally flattened lobules, deeply channelled down whole of inner face, fused with inner lobes at base only; inner lobes ±0.5 mm long, adpressed to backs of anthers and usually shorter than or equalling them, ± deltoid to ± rectangular, truncate-emarginate, dorsiventrally flattened, with conspicuous erect to spreading truncate-emarginate dorsal projection.