Tylecodon schaeferianus (Dinter) Toelken

Perennials with branched underground tubers, rarely extensively branched, with one to several smooth branches (5-)20-40(-150) mm long with pale flaking bark. Leaves elliptic to obovate, (5-)8-15(-20) x 3-12(-16) mm, cuneate, acute, obtuse or truncate, somewhat dorsiventrally compressed and often slightly grooved above main vein, with a few scattered hairs when young, glabrous later, green to pale brown with red striations. Inflorescence a thyrse with 1(-2) monochasia, each with one (rarely in cultivation more) flower(-s), glabrous rarely with a few papillae; peduncle 15-14(-60) mm long, purplish brown; pedicels 4-12 mm long. Calyx 2-3.5 mm long, with a few club-shaped hairs or glabrous, green; lobes triangular-lanceolate, acute. Corolla glabrous outside; tube funnel-shaped, 7-10 mm long, inside with a few fine hairs where filaments are fused to tube, yellowish green; lobes 3-6 mm long, recurved, violet, pink or rarely white. Anthers 0.9-1.2 mm long. Squamae oblong, 0.9-1.1 x 0.2-0.3 mm, usually more or less emarginate, slightly fleshy, pale yellowish green.