A fleshy herb, with deep orange or saffron-coloured stems. Flowers sessile or subsessile, forming lateral clusters, 3–4 lin. in diam., distant or approximated in larger clusters; bracts round-ovate, blunt, apiculate, about 1 1/2 lin. long. Calyx and corolla 5-merous, pale yellowish. Calyx hemispherical, about 1 1/2 lin. in diam. Sepals free to the base, closely imbricate, fleshy, orbicular-ovate, barely 1 1/2 lin. long, obtuse, dorsally thickened in the middle line and beneath the apex, margin erosulose. Corolla exceeding the calyx; tube shortly campanulate, about 1 lin. long; lobes spreading ovate, blunt, 1 1/3 lin. long, margin erosulose. Scales large, broadly oblong, fimbriate, embracing the styles and thus closing the throat of the corolla. Anthers yellow, exserted; connective slightly produced at the tip. Ovary 2-celled, 4-ovuled; styles 2, long (ultimately 1 1/3 lin. long), exserted; stigmas capitate. Fruit not present.