Bryophyllum delagoense (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Schinz

Glabrous herb, not forming dense stands;  stems simple, mottled, to  c. 50 cm high, prostrate and rooting towards base, otherwise erect.  Lvs simple, sessile, alternate, opposite, or occasionally in whorls of 3, 6–7 cm long, 4–5 mm thick, cylindric and subterete, pale green to whitish, brownish white, or pale brown, with irregular dark green, snakeskin-like patches along sides, uniformly pale beneath, with a narrow pale band on a darker background above, usually with several plantlets around the tapering apex.  Infl. a rather dense, terminal, corymbose cyme, to  c. 8 cm diam.;  main axis to  c. 5 cm long.  Fls pendulous.  Calyx  c. 12 mm long, ± campanulate, not inflated in middle, brownish with whitish bloom;  lobes 7–10 mm long, ± triangular.  Corolla wine-red, becoming orange-red, especially lobes;  tube  c. 2.5 cm long, far exserted from calyx;  lobes  c. 10 mm long, ± broadly obovate to suborbicular, rounded or slightly mucronate.  Stamens  c. 3 cm long, pale pink.  Styles  c. 2.5 cm long, yellow.  Follicles not seen.  

[From:  Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

Flowering: Jul.–Sep.