Stapelia cedrimontana Frandsen

Small succulent forming dense clump, 150-500 mm diam. Stems 50-200 mm long, 5-10 mm thick, erect, ± glabrous, green mottled with purple; tubercles 1-3 mm long, widely spaced along stem and obtusely conical, joined into 4 obtuse angles, with stem square to slightly concave-sided in cross-section; leaf-rudiments 1.5-2.5 mm long. Inflorescence finely pubescent, reddish, 1(-2) per stem near base, with 1-3 flowers developing in gradual succession on stout peduncle (up to 10 mm long) with few deltoid bracts ±1 mm long; pedicel 12-35(-40) mm long, 2 mm thick, spreading with ascending apex holding flower facing horizontally or upwards; sepals 5-6 mm long, 1 mm broad at base, lanceolate, acute. Corolla 30-50(-60) mm diam., rotate; outside pale green to reddish usually with 3-5 prominent (not raised) longitudinal veins on each lobe; inside transversely rugulose, pale brown to dark purple-red with cream to yellow on rugosities, glabrous except for fine pubescence towards apices of lobes and base of tube; tube ±1.5 mm deep, pentagonal, steep-sided around stipe of gynostegium, corolla thickened around mouth; lobes 15-20 mm long, 7-9 mm broad at base, spreading to reflexed, ovate-acuminate, convex above from revolute margins with slender white cilia 2-3 mm long. Corona ±4.5-6.0 mm tall, ±6-10 mm broad, raised on thick pentagonal stipe 1 mm tall, dark purple becoming reddish towards base and on stipe, glabrous; outer lobes 3-4 mm long, 1.0-1.5 mm broad, ascending-spreading, oblong, obtuse to truncate or emarginate, apiculate; inner lobes 2.5-4.0 mm long, ±1 mm broad, adpressed to backs of anthers then erect to connivent and recurved above, dorsiventrally flattened below becoming terete above, narrowly ovate-acuminate, with spreading ± deltoid laterally flattened dorsal wing near base, 3.5-4.0 mm long and ±1 mm broad.