Acmadenia matroosbergensis E.Phillips

Shrubs up to 0.6 m tall, single-stemmed at base. Leaves to 8.5 mm long, 1.5 mm broad, very variable in size, oblong linear, sub-acute, mucronate, glabrous, erect, usually opposite, decussate; adaxial surface concave; abaxial surface rounded, gland dots scattered; margins scabrid. Inflorescence terminal in pairs, sessile, stands open, pink, 12 mm diam. Bract somewhat leaf-like. Bracteoles two, 1.8 mm long, 1 mm broad, elliptic, glabrous, sessile with a few gland dots; apex with a small obtuse point; margins translucent, ciliolate. Calyx lobes five, 3 mm long, 1.5 mm broad, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous, gland-dotted in two rows; margins translucent, ciliolate. Petals five, 6.5 mm long, 3.2 mm broad, obovoid, narrowing evenly to the base, gland-dotted, glabrous, minutely and sparsely ciliolate, spreading widely and recurved. Staminodes five, 0.5 mm long, with a minute, pale, acute apical gland, reddened, glabrous. Filaments five, 1.1 mm long, acicular, reddened, glabrous. Anthers five, 0.7 mm diam., dark maroon in colour; apical gland 0.3 mm diam., acute, sticky. Pollen 47 µ long, 23 µ broad, oblong. Disc exceeding the ovary and folding slightly over it, turgid, dark red, exuding nectar. Stigma 0.4 mm diam., capitate, dark red. Style becoming 1 mm long, erect, glabrous, reddened. Ovary 5-carpellate, 1 mm diam., glabrous; apices globose, turgid. Fruit 6.5 mm long, 7.5 mm diam., glabrous, hornless, multi-gland-dotted, with an immersed gland at the apex of each carpel. Seed 4.5 mm long, 2.2-2.4 mm broad, black, shining, rather more pointed at one end than usual; aril white.