Agathosma riversdalensis Dümmer

A low shrub usually 30-35 cm high, with puberulous branchlets. Leaves 2.5-3.5 mm long, alternate, erect-spreading, ovate, obtuse, rounded or subcordate at the base, convex or flat above, glabrous, or sometimes pilose on the margin, gibbous behind the apex, with a few scattered glands and a slightly raised nerve beneath. Flowers in terminal clusters. Peduncles 3 mm long, puberulous, with linear ciliolate bracteoles at the middle. Sepals 1.25 mm long, widely oblong, very obtuse, slightly cucullate above, ciliate, rounded and with a few raised glands beneath. Petals 4 mm long; blade elliptic-or obovate-oblong, very obtuse, ciliate on the lower half; claw 1/4 as long, linear, glabrous. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 2.5 mm long, narrowly linear near the base, thence lanceolate upwards, terminating in a large gland, densely pubescent above and beneath at the middle. Ovary glabrous, with 3 carpels bearing obovate-oblong processes. Style glabrous.