Agathosma imbricata Willd.

A low usually much branched shrub. Branchlets glabrous, ± pubescent or pilose. Leaves 2.5-5 mm long, alternate, ascending, erect-spreading or spreading, often subimbricate, sometimes imbricate, linear-lanceolate, lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate ovate or subrotund, acute or subacute, sometimes acuminate, rounded or subcordate at the base, ± concave and glabrous above, ciliate and ± keeled, at least on the upper half, ± pubescent or glabrous beneath. Flowers in terminal clusters, the lower sometimes axillary. Peduncles 2-4 mm long, glabrous, sparsely pilose or pubescent, with bracteoles on the lower half. Sepals 2-2.5 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, oblong, ovate-oblong, elliptic or ovate, subacute or obtuse, sometimes membranous at the margin, ciliate, convex and glabrous, puberulous or pubescent beneath, keeled behind the apex. Petals 4-7.5 mm long; blade rotund, widely ovate or widely obovate; claw 2-2.5 times as long, subfiliform, pilose-ciliate on the lower half. Stamens sparsely ciliate near the base. Staminodes 3-4.5 mm long, spathulate or oblong, very obtuse, tapering to a slender base, pilose-ciliate on the upper half, usually with a gland behind the apex. Ovary glandular and pilose on the upper half, with 3 carpels bearing oblong pilose processes. Style glabrous, or sparsely pilose on the lower half.