Tavaresia

Spiny, glabrous, usually densely tufted, succulent perennials. Stems erect or ascending, 6-12-angled, with angles tuberculate-toothed; each tubercle furnished with 3(1) apical, bristle-like, modified leaves. Inflorescence 1 per stem with 1-few flowers produced in succession from near base of stem. Sepals +/- ovate-lanceolate. Corolla with campanulate or elongate-campanulate tube up to 150 mm long and lobes up to 25 mm long, spreading, with small projecting points in sinuses; outside longitudinally flecked and barred with maroon on cream to greenish; inside densely covered with papillae, each tipped with a short seta, with maroon spots on pale yellow coalescing towards base into dark maroon patch around base of gynostegium. Corona 2-seriate, arising from staminal column; outer lobes shortly united at base, produced into 10 filiform segments sometimes with knob-like apex, with tooth between pairs at base; inner corona lobes 5, linear, incumbent on back of anthers. Staminal column arising from base of corolla. Anthers 2-locular, descending towards centre of style head, without apical appendage. Pollinia +/- horizontal, with short caudicles. Follicles erect, fusiform, glabrous, smooth. Seeds with tuft of hairs. x = 11 (1 report).