Rhinephyllum

Dwarf, tufted perennials up to 100 mm high or shrublets with visible, woody internodes; sometimes with woody or tuberous rootstocks. Leaves opposite, slightly united at base, clavate to semiterete, upper surface +/- flat, lower surface rounded or slightly keeled, rarely with teeth, apical surface with hard, white tubercles. Flowers solitary, terminal, pedicellate, up to +/- 30 mm in diameter, without bracts; opening midday, afternoon or evening; scented. Sepals 5, free or forming short tube above ovary in R. pillansii. Petals 1-5-seriate, free, white to yellow. Stamens with some filaments bearded at base. Nectary varying from a ring to 5 separate, sometimes conspicuous, crenate glands. Ovary slightly convex on top; placentas parietal; stigmas 5, subulate, somewhat plumose. Fruit a 5-locular capsule, small, with sutures slightly raised and gaping; valves deltoid, reflexed when expanded; of Delosperma type but with diverging expanding keels and marginal valve wings; covering membranes often 0 or much reduced; closing bodies 0. Seeds many in each locule, globose-ovoid, slightly compressed, +/- smooth. x = 9. F lowering from spring to mid-summer. D istinguishing characters: dwarf succulents, often with textured leaves; flowers white to yellow; pedicels ebracteate.