Agathosma geniculata Pillans

A low rather rigid shrublet with rigidly pubescent branchlets. Leaves 4 mm long, alternate, erect-spreading, very crowded, ovate, obtuse, rounded at the base, incurved at the apex, slightly concave above, with a raised nerve beneath much swollen in the upper half, with inconspicuous glands on the margin, nerve and sometimes elsewhere beneath, tipped with rigid hairs. Flowers in dense terminal clusters. Peduncles 1 mm long, glabrous, with linear-oblong ciliate bracteoles at or near the base. Sepals 2.5-3 mm long, ovate or obovate, rather abruptly narrowing to an obtuse apex, concave above, navicular at the apex, hyaline and ciliate at the margins. Petals 5 mm long; blade obovate, very obtuse, glabrous; claw 1.5 times as long, linear, ciliate. Stamens very sparsely pubescent on the lower half. Staminodes 4 mm long, linear-lanceolate and sparsely pilose-ciliate in the upper half, distinctly geniculate and densely pilose at the middle, filiform and sparsely ciliate in the lower half. Disk well developed, crenulate. Ovary rigidly pilose on the apex, with 3 carpels bearing obovate processes furrowed and rigidly pilose on the inner face. Style glabrous.