Tylecodon occultans (Toelken) Toelken

Perennials with sparsely branched underground tubers up to 60 mm long with short sparsely branched stems up to 15 mm long and with pale bark. Leaves spathulate-orbicular, 4-12 x 3-14 mm, cuneate to almost petiolate, obtuse, dorsiventrally compressed and slightly grooved above, more or less densely covered with blunt erect trichomes, deep green. Inflorescence a thyrse with 1(-3) monochasia each with 1-3 flowers, glandular-pubescent; peduncle 8-15 mm long, pale; pedicel 5-13 mm long. Calyx 2-3.5 mm long, glandular-puberulous to pubescent, yellowish green; lobes triangular-lanceolate, acute. Corolla glandular-pubescent, pale yellow to yellowish green; tube cylindrical, 6-8 mm long, inside with few fine hairs mainly where filaments are fused to tube; lobes 3-4 mm long, recurved to recoiled. Anthers 1-1.3 mm long. Squamae oblong, 1.1-1.3 x 0.2-0.4 mm, usually more or less emarginate, fleshy, yellow.