Perennials, usually with several basal rosettes, sparsely or rarely much branched, with carnose to slightly woody branches, with old leaves not deciduous. Leaves ob-lanceolate to obovate or elliptic, rarely lin-ear-oblanceolate, 20-40(-60) x 5-13 mm, obtuse to rounded, flat or slightly convex above, very much convex below, recurved and more or less flat on the ground, rarely stiffly erect, glabrous, rarely with short hairs and/or marginal cilia, usually purplish red, rarely yellowish green or green. Inflores­cence an elongate thyrse with many dichasia (i.e. part-inflorescences are produced by 3-5 nodes of central axis), with peduncle 0,l-0,2(-0,3) m long, glabrous or with fine hairs. Calyx: lobes oblong-triangular, l,5-2(-2,5) mm long, obtuse, with fine hairs or papillae and short marginal cilia, fleshy, green to red. Corolla tubular to almost cy­lindrical, fused at base for 0,8-1 mm, cream to pale yellow; lobes panduriform, 2,5-3,5 mm long, each with almost spherical dorsal appendage in terminal position and with membranous apex on inside. Stamens with yellow anthers. Squamae oblong-cuneate, 0,6-1 x 0,4-0,6 mm, truncate to slightly emarginate, usually at first abruptly, later gradually constricted towards base, fleshy, yellow to orange.