Perennials with usually only one stem from a swollen base up to 150 mm long usuÂally little branched towards apex and with almost white circular phyllopodia but later with brown peeling bark. Leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, 15-40(-50) x 2-4 mm, abruptly cuneate, acute, terete to flat or slightly grooved above, usually glabrous or with a few glandular hairs when young, grey-green to greyish brown and often with brown striations. Inflorescence a thyrse with rarely more than 3 monochasia, each with 2-5 flowers, rigid, glandular-pubescent; peÂduncle (40-)60-100(-130) mm long, pale brown; pedicels 5-12 mm long. Calyx 5-6 mm long, glandular-tomentose to pubesÂcent, brown rarely yellowish brown; lobes triangular-lanceolate, acute. Corolla glan-dular-tomentose to pubescent, pale brown with darker indistinct venation; tube elon-gate-urceolate, 12-14 mm long, with fine hairs inside, particularly where filaments are fused to tube; lobes 3-4 mm long, recurved towards apex. Anthers 1,1-1,5 mm long. Squamae oblong to oblong-cuneate, 1-1,2 x 0,8-1 mm, usually deeply emarginate, somewhat fleshy, yellow. Fig. 3:3.
