Astroloba rubriflora is a succulent plant found in the mountainous Karoo area around Robertson, South Africa.

[2] It was formerly grouped by some authorities (L.Bolus) as the only species in a separate monotypic genus, Poellnitzia (named after the botanist Joseph Karl von Poellnitz), on account of its unusual flowers.

The long thin inflorescence has a horizontal raceme and red flowers with green tips, that all twist into an erect position.

Its multiple sprawling stems (to 45 cm) are densely covered in sharply-pointed waxy blue-green leaves (that nonetheless go brownish on exposure to harsh sun).

[6] In its natural habitat it tends to grow sheltered underneath bushes and shrubs, often on low hills and slopes.