Agathosma scaberula Dümmer

A rigid shrub about 20 cm high, with hispid branchlets. Leaves 3-5 mm long, alternate, ascending, subimbricate, ovate, acute, rounded or subcordate at the base, slightly convex and smooth above, incurved above the middle, with acute papillae on the margin, nerve-keeled and rough with papillae beneath, gibbous behind the apex. Flowers in terminal clusters. Peduncles 0.5-1 mm, long, strigillose, with linear basal bracteoles pilose beneath on the nerve and margin. Sepals 2.5 mm long, linear-oblong, subacute, trinerved, incurved at the apex, ciliate, pilose beneath on the upper half. Petals 5.5 mm long; blade oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse; claw twice as long, slender, ciliate. Stamens sparsely strigillose on the filaments. Staminodes 4.5 mm long, adhering to the petals at the base, composed of an oblanceolate blade and a slender ciliate claw 3 times as long. Ovary with 3 carpels bearing elliptic, sometimes pilose, processes. Style glabrous.