Quaqua framesii (Pillans) Bruyns

Small to robust succulent forming dense clump 60-500 mm diam. Stems 50-200 mm long, 15-25 mm thick, decumbent, grey-green to somewhat purplish; tubercles 3-6 mm long, conical, spreading, joined near bases into 4-5 often slightly spiralling or disorganised angles along stem, tipped with sharp hardened yellow tooth slightly flattened above, often with 2 denticles near base. Inflorescences of 3-10 ± simultaneously opening flowers towards apex of stem; pedicel 1-3 mm long, 1 mm thick, spreading and holding flower facing horizontally; sepals 2.0-2.5 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, acute. Corolla 11-18 mm diam., rotate to campanulate; outside yellow-green occasionally with slight pinkish tinge; inside bright yellow or greenish yellow on lobes becoming paler towards mouth of tube, around mouth of tube and base of lobes with stiff cylindrical translucent-white ascending bristles each arising from a low papilla, otherwise smooth; tube cupular to conical, 1.8-2.2 mm long, 2-3 mm diameter at mouth inside; lobes 7-8 mm long, 2 mm broad at base, ascending to spreading, ± uniform in width to obtuse slightly incurved apex, longitudinally folded back so upper surface convex. Corona 1.8-2.0 mm tall, ±2 mm broad, pentagonal when viewed from above with vertices formed by lower part of outer lobes, bright yellow, sessile or raised on only very short stipe; outer lobes ±1 mm long, bifid but only very slightly with lobules remaining connivent and nearly completely closing nectarial orifice, lower down forming deep pouch between bases of inner lobes; inner lobes ±0.5 mm long, adpressed to backs of anthers but not usually exceeding them, ± rectangular and broadening towards truncate often emarginate apex, dorsiventrally flattened, sometimes hispid towards dorsally slightly swollen base.