Plants acaulescent, though sometimes caulescent, with leaves in a basal rosette which is 7 to 15 cm high, 10 to 18 cm diam., (not) or slowly proliferous from the base. Leaves about 50, the young erect, tips incurved, the old ascending, spreading, tips incurved, up to 10 cm long, up to 3 cm broad at the base, up to 25 mm thick near the base, triangular-ovate tapering, with a pungent reddish-brown tip; reddish or dark green, firm and fleshy; upper surface turgid below, rounded or flat towards the apex, smooth, tubercled with large prominent sharp white tubercles, these scattered, or arranged in longitudinal rows; lower surface convex, with scattered or broken transverse bands of prominent large white tubercles; keel 1, centrally positioned in the upper half, with large white tubercles; margins rounded or acute, tubercled; end-awn yellowish, 1.5 mm long. Inflorescence branched, up to 40 cm tall, branched near the middle with 3-5 branches, or sometimes more, each subtended at the base by a deltoid acuminate bract, about 20 mm long; peduncle naked, up to 25 cm long, about 4 mm diam., reddish-brown; raceme about 14 cm long, with about 28 flowers and buds, 2 to 3 open simultaneously; floral bracts 2 mm long, membranous, ovate-deltoid acute, with brownish-white veins, clasping the pedicels, (shorter than the pedicels); pedicels 4 mm long, 1.5 mm diam., brown; perianth 14 mm long, receptacle compressed at base, funnel-shaped, tube more or less 4 mm across constricted to 2 mm above, curved; segments free (often not) to the base, straight, limb 2 lipped; posterior segments erect or slightly recurved, yellow with green veins; exterior part recurved, yellow with green veins; stamens 6 of two lengths, 7 and 6 mm long, inserted within the perianth tube; ovary 3 mm long, 2 mm diam., green; style 4 mm long, white, curved, not capitate.
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Acaulescent succulent to 15 cm diam., rosettes solitary. Leaves brown to olive-green with large whitish to brown tubercles. Flowers yellow with green veins, tipped with brown.
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