Small succulent forming clump 60-300 mm diam. Stems 15-25 mm thick, erect to decumbent, grey-green; tubercles 4-10 mm long, conical, spreading to slightly decurved, each tipped with sharp hardened yellow tooth. Inflorescences of 1-3 usually successively opening flowers towards tips of stems; pedicel 2-4 mm long, initially horizontal or ascending then descending, holding flower facing downwards. Corolla 8-16 mm diam., ± rotate; outside pale green suffused with red; inside in upper half to two thirds of lobes bright to pale yellow or yellow-green, below this cream dotted and lined with pale purple-red to maroon, this darker colour organised into 2-3 concentric rings around and below mouth of tube, becoming darker towards base of tube; tube shallow, containing only base of gynostegium; lobes 4.0-8.0 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm broad at base, spreading, upper yellowish portion somewhat thickened, narrowing very gradually from base to abruptly acute tip, with slender (not spathulate) cilia up to 2 mm long along margins, with thin pale purple twisted hairs on inside below thickened portion (on maroon/purple-red area). Corona 2.5-3.0 mm diam., pale purplish red, raised on stipe up to 0.5 mm long; outer lobes 1.0-1.3 mm long, ascending, deeply bifid into widely divergent lobules, fused laterally to inner lobes at base only; inner lobes ±0.5 mm long, sometimes exceeding anthers, deltoid to rectangular, obtuse to truncate-emarginate, dorsiventrally flattened, dorsally swollen near base but otherwise without dorsal projection.
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Aroena Like Q. parviflora but pedicels 2-4 mm long, corolla 8-16 mm diam., inside yellow near tips of lobes, elsewhere cream, dotted and ringed with red, covered with fine hairs and marginal cilia, corona reddish.
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