Description :

• Dwarf, mat-forming, leafless, glabrous, succulent perennials
• Stem usually procumbent, often arching and rerooting as it elongates, 6-angled, tuberculate-tesselate, acutely toothed along angles when young, often with a distinct bud in axil of each tubercle
• Flowers solitary of rarely in pairs, arising between angles near stem apex
• Sepals lanceolate, acuminate
• Corolla : tube cupular or campanulate; lobes ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, usually connate at apex
• Corona 2-seriate, glabrous; outer lobes bifid into 2 slightly diverging, erect to semi-erect horns, joining to dorsal projection of inner lobes; inner lobes adnate to backs of anthers; dorsal projections divided into many semi-erect processes forming a pectinate ring with outer lobes
• Anthers 2-locular, without apical appendages
• Pollinia suberect or nearly horizontal, broader than long, with short caudicles and winged corpuscle
• Follicles erect, terete-fusiform, glabrous, smooth
• x = 11

Nomenclature:

• Pectinaria Haw.
  • Haworth: 14 (1819)
  • Brown: 867 (1909)
  • White & Sloane: 727 (1937)
  • Bruyns: 62 (1981)

Distribution & Notes:

• Southern Africa : Species 3, Northern and Western Cape