Tylecodon buchholzianus (Schuldt & P.Stephan) Toelken

Perennials with somewhat swollen irregular base, with branches up to 0.3 m long, much branched and usually with pale grey to brown flaking bark. Leaves linear, 5-15(-20) x 2-3(-4) mm, cuneate, usually apiculate, terete or slightly grooved above, usually curved upwards, glabrous, usually dull green and often with brown striations. Inflorescence a thyrse with 1-3 monochasia, each with 1 or 2 flowers, but usually only one flower per inflorescence in nature, glabrous or almost so; peduncle up to 10 mm long, purplish brown; pedicels 4-10 mm long. Calyx 1.5-2.5 mm long, glabrous, green; lobes triangular, acute. Corolla glabrous outside, pink to deep red; tube cylindrical, 10-13 mm long, with fine hairs in throat; lobes 4-5 mm long, recurved. Anthers 1.2-1.4 mm long. Squamae oblong, 1.5-2.5 x 0.9-1 mm, often somewhat broadened in lower third, usually deeply emarginate, fleshy, yellow.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.