Xerophyte

Leaves

Subulate, 2 mm, reddish.

Description

Tunilla corrugataSN|3724]]SN|3724]] is a low, creeping succulent shrublet, more or less branched and forming compact clumps to 10 cm tall. The pads (or joints) are whitish in colour, more or less oval somewhat wrinkled.

Stem Segments

Obliquely ovate, elliptic, circular, often erect, tapering at both ends, flattened but not strongly so, sometime almost cylindrical, the terminal segments often flattened, to 35(-50) mm long, 8-12(-25) mm wide, to 15 mm thick, with low tubercles, light green or pale bluish green.

Flowers

Reddish or orange-red, 6 cm long, 5 cm wide, stigma green.

Spines

Upper ones very fine, silky, lower ones 6-8, needle-like, whitish, bent backward, 8-12 mm long, often with 1-2 much longer.

Fruits

Red.

Areoles

Whitish, crowded. Glochids minute, yellowish.