Perennial shrubs to about 0.5 m tall, the internodes obscured. Leaves ovate to elliptic, often reddish, the margins curled upwards. Flower clusters flat-topped, individual flowers mostly stalkless. Corolla tubular, generally crimson but grown in a range of hues and occasionally white, fragrant; summer. Stamens with black anthers. Syn. Rochea coccinea (l.) dc.

S Africa (Cape Province).

Source: Stajsic, V.; Spencer, R.; Forster, P.; Thompson, A. (2002). Crassulaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.