Tylecodon racemosus (Harv.) Toelken

Perennials with sparsely branched erect stems up to 0.4 m high covered with remains of old leaves when young, later with pale brown peeling bark. Leaves linear, oblanceolate to obovate rarely almost orbicular, (10-)20-45(-60) x (2-)5-25(-35) mm, more or less abruptly cuneate, acute to obtuse, terete or slightly grooved to dorsiventrally flattened, glandular-pubescent to glabrous, green to grey-green. Inflorescence a thyrse with 1-5 monochasia, each with 1-4(-6) flowers, glandular-pubescent to glabrous; peduncle 30-50(-80) mm long, green; pedicels 5-12 mm long. Calyx 7-12 mm long, glandular-pubescent to glabrous, pale green; lobes lanceolate-triangular, acute and usually with a colourless apex. Corolla glandular-puberulous to glabrous on out-side; tube cylindrical but slightly broadened at mouth, 7-10 mm long, glabrous inside, pale green; lobes 4-6 mm long, recurved, white more or less tinged pink. Anthers 1.1-1.8 mm long. Squamae oblong-cuneate to almost square, 1-1.8 x 0.6-1 mm, entire to deeply emarginate, slightly fleshy, pale yellow. Flowering period: September, October (November).