Small succulent forming a loose clump up to 0.5 m diam. Stems 50-150 mm long, 10-15 mm thick; leaf-rudiments 5-12 mm long. Inflorescence with few flowers from spreading peduncle 5-100 mm long and 4-7 mm thick; pedicel (50-)70-100(-130) mm long, often spreading with upturned apex so that flowers humifuse; sepals 6-7 mm long, 2 mm broad at base, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla ±50-75 mm diam., rotate to slightly campanulate; outside pale green sometimes suffused with purple; inside cream to pale yellow often speckled with brownish maroon towards centre darkening towards middle of lobes and becoming brownish to pinkish maroon towards tips, covered densely below bases of lobes and as far as mouth of tubelet around gynostegium with obtuse conical papillae each tipped with a slightly clavate usually white bristle up to 2 mm long (papillae reaching max. length just beyond mouth of tube, becoming shorter towards base of lobes); tube shallowly conical, with corolla somewhat thickened except just around gynostegium; lobes 18-25 mm long, 12.5 mm broad at base, spreading to strongly reflexed, ovate, acute, margins with white to purple subclavate vibratile cilia up to 5 mm long. Corona ±7 mm tall, 10-12 mm broad, pale yellow spotted with brown, raised on short stipe; outer lobes ±6 mm long, 1.5-2.0 mm broad at base, ascending, deeply trifid; central lobule ±5 mm long, narrowly deltoid, acute to truncate or bifid, slightly channelled down inner face; lateral lobules slender, subulate, often widely diverging, 3.0-3.5 mm long; inner lobes 3.5-5.0 mm long, connivent becoming recurved above, terete above anthers, obtuse, near base with ascending laterally flattened ± narrowly deltoid dorsal horn 1.0-2.5 mm long and 0.5-0.6 mm broad near base.
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