Quaqua ramosa (Masson) Bruyns

Densely branched succulent shrublet usually broader than tall, up to 0.3 m tall and 0.3 m broad, rooting from central stem only and branching mainly above base. Stems 60-300 mm long, 15-30 mm thick, erect, purplish or greyish green; tubercles 3-5 mm long, broadly deltoid, laterally flattened, obtuse, joined in lower half into 4(rarely 5) obtuse angles along stem, each tipped with very small tooth <0.5 mm long or corky brownish patch flanked by 2 obtuse stipular denticles on new growth. Inflorescences of 2-15 ± simultaneously opening flowers usually in dense fascicles mostly in upper half of stem; pedicel 1.5-3.0 mm long, 1.5 mm thick, pinkish, spreading and holding flower facing horizontally; sepals 2-3 mm long, lanceolate-acute, pinkish. Corolla 13-15 mm long, narrowly campanulate; outside smooth and somewhat shiny purple-black on lobes to red on tube becoming cream towards base; inside dark purple-black on lobes and mouth of tube, in tube white with large round purple-black spots, with papillae around mouth of tube each tipped with a white ascending bristle; tube 3-4 mm long, 2.5-5.0 mm broad at mouth, cupular, with corolla slightly thickened at mouth; lobes 7.5-12.0 mm long, 3.5-4.0 mm broad at base, erect to spreading, narrowly lanceolate, acute, longitudinally folded back along middle. Corona ±1.5 mm tall, 2.0-2.2 mm broad, purple-black becoming white towards base, raised on short stipe; outer lobes ±0.5 mm long, ascending, shortly bifid into small spreading deltoid teeth, fused laterally for most of length with bases of inner lobes to form pouch; inner lobes ±0.5 mm long, adpressed to backs of anthers and exceeding them to meet in centre, ± rectangular, obtuse, dorsiventrally flattened, with broad and obtuse dorsal projection near base.