Genus: ± 20 species.
Region: Mexico.
Habitat: on shady rocks, or rarely as an epiphyte; altitude of 1200 to 2100 meters.
BotanyHerb; rosette plants; 20 cm tall.
Stems: short; basally branched; with axillary runners.
Leaves: rosette, dense, ± mat-forming; tongue-shaped, spreading during the growth season, connivent during the dry season, 2 to 4 cm long, ± 1 cm wide; ± bright bluish to greenish; tip 2 mm long, elongate.
Inflorescence: ± 6 cm; thyrses; ± 1 to 3 cm; with scorpioid pendant branches; with ± 10 flowers.
Flowers: pedicels 2 cm; 5 merous; sepals basally united, obovate, acute, 6 to 8 mm; petals ovate-lanceolate, pointed, 7 to 10 mm, lower face green, tube 3 to 4 mm, inside whitish-yellow-green, basally scattered brown blotches and or stripes, confluent in the middle and resulting in an almost solid coloration towards the tips, apically yellowish-green, lower face with red stripes near the margins; filaments 5 to 8 mm, greenish-white apically tinged reddish.