Tylecodon rubrovenosus (Dinter) Toelken

Perennials with sparsely branched erect stems up to 0.35 m high, covered first with short phyllopodia but later replaced by a peeling bark. Leaves linear, rarely linear-lanceolate, (10-)25-40(-80) x 2-4(-6) mm, slightly cuneate, acute, terete or with a groove above, glandular-pubescent to glabrescent or glabrous, grey-green to greyish brown and often with reddish brown striations. Inflorescence a thyrse with 3-5(-7) long, straight monochasia, but which usually zig-zag when young, each with 4-9 flowers, glandular-tomentose; peduncle 60-120(-200) mm long, brittle, pale yellow; pedicels 3-6 mm long. Calyx 4-6 mm long, glandular-tomentose, yellowish green; lobes lanceolate-triangular, acute. Corolla glandular-pubescent to tomentose, yellowish green; tube cylindrical to somewhat funnel-shaped, 7-9 mm long, glabrous inside except for few hairs where filaments are fused to tube; lobes 5-7 mm long, recoiled. Anthers 1.5-1.8 mm long. Squamae oblong to square, 0.8-1.2 x 0.5-1 mm, slightly emarginate, fleshy, yellowish orange.