This is the more commonly encountered subspecies. It has smaller bright green (rather than glaucous) markedly crinkled leaves mostly produced after the flowers. The filaments are inserted on the tapered part of the corolla-lobes about 7–10 mm. above their base. The mature corolla-buds have a single swelling at the top of the corolla-tube at the base of the vents. In subsp. panganensis the filaments are inserted on a second broadening of the corolla-lobes, about 5–6 mm. above the base. This is apparent in the mature buds as a second swelling, and when the vents open between them the recurved lips are bright yellow, contrasting more with the green to orange-yellow ground-colour of the lobe-bases and the bright red of the filaments inside. The calyx of subsp. commiphorae is also shorter. The geographical ranges overlap, but subsp. panganensis is rarely found on Commiphora ,and generally on Adansonia, Sterculia or Euphorbia.