Gasteria brachyphylla

Gasteria brachyphylla, known as the Klein Karoo gasteria, is a succulent plant native to the Western Cape of South Africa. Its strap-shaped leaves are borne in two opposite rows, an arrangement called distichous, and its pink flowers, 12 to 22 mm long, appear around September. The plant is proliferous. It closely resembles two relatives, Gasteria pillansii and Gasteria disticha, but is told apart by very shiny, smooth leaves where theirs are rough with tiny tubercles; the name brachyphylla means wide or short leaves, and its leaves are shorter than its relatives. It grows under shrubs in the Succulent Karoo vegetation of the Little Karoo, from Barrydale in the west to Uniondale in the east.