Huernia volkartii Werderm. & Peitsch.   

DESCRIPTION: is a an attractive tufted, leafless succulent, consisting of a number of five-angled stems, occasionally forming clumps or carpets. These stems are green during the rains but usually turn reddish brown in the dry winter months. The ridges on the stems form fleshy, thorn-like points, which serve as "leaves". Stems erect, shortly decumbent to ascending, 3-5 cm tall, (4- to) 5-angular. Tubercles low conical with weak-pointed tips. Flowers facing upwards, rarely prostrate or inclined on short peduncles to 10 mm long. Sepals 5.5 -8 mm long. Corolla 2-3 cm in diameter, tube bowl-shaped, c. 10 mm across and half as deep. Corolla outside cream-coloured, inside cream with deep pink transverse lines and dots, rough-papillose, the papillae mottled. Corolla lobes triangular, 4.5-9 mm long, 7-10 mm wide. Corona to 7 mm in diameter, 3.5 mm tall, the inner lobes capitate, conically tapering to an oblique fuzzy head from a chinned base.

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique.