Stapelia glanduliflora Masson

Small succulent forming compact clump 150-500 mm diam. Stems 30-150 mm long, 8-15 mm thick, erect, shortly pubescent, grey-green to purplish; tubercles 2-4 mm long, low and conical, joined into 4 obtuse angles along stem between which stem slightly concave; leaf-rudiments 1.5-2.0 mm long. Inflorescence pubescent, 1 per stem, of 1-10 flowers developing in close succession on stout peduncle up to 10 mm long with several deltoid bracts; pedicel 20-50 mm long, 1.5-2.0 mm thick, pinkish to green, spreading with upturned apex holding flower facing upwards ± on ground; sepals 3-4 mm long, 1 mm broad at base, lanceolate, acuminate, acute, green to brownish towards apices. Corolla 25-35 mm diam., rotate; outside cream-green with 3-5 darker impressed veins per lobe; inside faintly rugulose towards centre and smooth in upper half of lobes, pale yellow-green faintly transversely mottled with purple, becoming purple in tube, densely covered with translucent-white clavate hairs up to 3 mm long on lobes mainly towards margins (with bare patch along middle of each lobe) and on central united portion of corolla to mouth of tube, with few fine small clavate hairs along margins and dense mat of small adpressed clavate hairs in tube (facing mouth); tube ±2 mm deep, broadly bowl-shaped, with corolla thickened around mouth; lobes 12-15 mm long, 5-7 mm broad at base, spreading with tips usually somewhat reflexed, ovate-attenuate. Corona ±5 mm tall, ±7 mm broad, raised on obtusely pentagonal reddish stipe ±1 mm long, glabrous; outer lobes ±2 mm long, spreading, lanceolate with narrowly obtuse apex, yellow to orange towards base becoming purplish towards apex and along margins; inner lobes 2.0-2.5 mm long, reddish to purple, flecked with yellow, adpressed to backs of anthers then erect beyond them, dorsiventrally flattened below becoming terete above, subulate-attenuate, sometimes with slight dorsal ridge towards base.