Small succulent forming compact to diffuse clump 50-500 mm diam. Stems 60-200 mm long, 8-15 mm thick, erect to spreading, shortly pubescent, grey-green with darker green to purple in grooves between angles; tubercles 2-3 mm long, widely spaced along stem, obscure, joined into 4 obtuse angles along stem with stem distinctly concave between angles; leaf-rudiments 2-7 mm long, lanceolate, acute. Inflorescences pubescent, 1-3 per stem arising at any height on stem, each with 1-6 flowers developing in gradual succession on stout spreading to erect peduncle 5-40 mm long, with deltoid bracts up to 1 mm long; pedicel 10-50 mm long, 1.5 mm thick, pale green to purplish, ascending to spreading and often holding flower facing upwards; sepals 3.5-5.5 mm long, 1-2 mm broad at base, ovate, acuminate. Corolla 15-45 mm diam., rotate to slightly campanulate; outside purplish to pale green; inside usually transversely rugulose over most of surface with rugosities fading to absent in tube, sometimes only very faintly transversely rugulose on lobes, purple-to red-to yellow-brown (or greenish) on lobes sometimes changing to red around mouth of tube and sometimes paler in tube (rarely altogether almost black)), glabrous but finely papillate; tube 3-5 mm long, ±5 mm broad, shallowly bowl-shaped to cupular, rarely slightly pentagonal, with corolla often noticeably thickened around mouth; lobes 5-15 mm long, 7-9 mm broad at base, spreading to slightly reflexed, ovate, acuminate, convex with margins reflexed. Corona ±2.5-3.5 mm tall, ±3.5 mm broad, purple-red to red, raised on very short stipe <0.5 mm long, glabrous; outer lobes ±0.5 mm long, 1.0-1.5 mm broad, spreading, ± rectangular, truncate to sometimes subacute; inner lobes 0.50-0.75 mm long, adpressed to backs of anthers and sometimes slightly exceeding them, dorsiventrally flattened, deltoid to lanceolate, acute, slightly swollen dorsally at base.
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A succulent herb which keeps growing from year to year. It does not have leaves. It forms compact clumps 5-50 cm across. It grows 15 cm high. The stems can be 20 cm long by 1-2 cm thick. The flowers are hairy and there are 1-3 flowering stalks per stem with 1-6 flowers each. The flowers are 2-5 cm across. The flowers vary in colour from purple to green or red or brown.
Succulent perennial herb, up to 150 mm tall. Pedicel short, shorter than 5 mm. Corolla rotate, 15-30(-45) mm in diameter. Inner corona lobes glabrous, oblong, subacute, obtuse or rarely emarginate at apex. Flowers yellow-brown to blackish brown, sometimes with greenish tinge.
A subtropical plant. They grow in dry arid locations. It suits semiarid tropical and subtropical regions. It can grow in areas with a dry season of 6-11 months. It is often on soils from limestone rock. In southern Africa it grows between 600-1,900 m altitude. It can grow in arid places.
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Flat, rocky areas, in the open or below bushes.
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