Huernia recondita Gilbert     

DESCRIPTION: small procumbent succulent plant from Ethiopia with thin rounded stems and exquisite flowers. Flowers are pale yellow in color and marked with blood red spots. The annulus is not visible on the flower and corolla is covered by cylindrical to club-shaped papillae to 2.8 mm long. The flower color is variable

Stems: Short with four smooth angles (rarely 5-7 angled) almost cylindric, up to 50 cm long, 10-12,5 mm thick, obtusely 4-angled, plant appears slightly segmented with a small pointed tubercule at the end of each segment. Stems are off-green in color and marked with rust coloured marks, with obsolescent tubercle teeth.

DISTRIBUTION: Ethiopia