Description: Braunsia maximiliani sometimes known as Echinus maximiliani or Lampranthus maximiliani is a compact, creeping, perennial-succulent shrublet. It blooms early in the year with quite large rose coloured flowers.Stems: Branches trailing and rooting at nodes, to 17 cm long, fertile branches erect, densely 4-leaved.Leaves: Fused for a third of their length, trigonous, boat-shaped (with prominently convex sides) 6-10 mm long, 1,5-6 mm broad, 6-8 mm thick, grey-green, epidermis papillate and hence velvety to the touch over the entire surface, keel and margins white, cartilagenous.Flowers: Solitary and terminal, pink, raised above the plant, 20-22 mm in diameter. Pedicels with bracteoles at their middle, petals bright pink, c. 10 mm long, 2 mm wide. Filamentous staminodes pink, filaments apically yellow or reddish, nectary ring crenulate.
