Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum

Stems to c. 2 m long. Leaves 1–4 (rarely to 7) cm long, 2–8 mm thick, usually shining green, sometimes yellowish or tinged red, terete to rather obscurely trigonous. Flowers 2–5 cm diam.; pedicel 1–8cm long, elongating in fruit; calyx tube obconic; the 2 longest sepals usually c. 1 (rarely to c. 3) cm long, enlarging in fruit; petaloid staminodes c. 1–2 cm long. Capsule obconic, c. 1 cm long and wide (to 18 mm wide when opened); seeds ovoid, slightly compressed, almost smooth, c. 0.8 mm long. Flowers mainly Oct.–Feb.