Agathosma serpyllacea Licht. ex Roem. & Schult.

A low shrub. Branchlets ± pubescent or villous, with spreading or ascending hairs, sometimes glabrous. Leaves mostly 0.5-1.0 cm long, alternate, erect-spreading or, less often, ascending, linear or lanceolate-linear and acuminate, lanceolate, linear-or oblong-lanceolate and acute, subacute or acuminate, rarely ovate, rounded at the base, often somewhat incurved above the middle, ± concave above (mostly in the upper half), rarely subcucullate at the apex, with a prominent nerve beneath, gibbous behind the apex, sometimes subtrigonous and slightly keeled (in the narrower forms), often ± revolute at the margin, entirely glabrous, puberulous, pubescent or pilose, or pilose at the margin and beneath on the nerve, with impressed glands at the margin and on the keel. Flowers in terminal clusters, or the lower axillary. Peduncles usually 3-6 mm. long, ± pubescent, sparsely pilose or glabrous, with bracteoles at the middle or on the lower half. Sepals usually 1.5-3 mm long, up to 4 mm long, lanceolate, linear-or ovate-lanceolate, ovate or deltoid-ovate, acuminate, acute, subacute or obtuse, obtusely keeled ± ciliate, rarely glabrous or sparsely pubescent beneath. Petals 3.5-5.5 mm. long; blade oblong-elliptic, obovate, widely obovate or subrotund, abruptly or gradually passing into the claw, glabrous, ± pubescent above or rarely ciliate on the lower half; claw 0.5-1.5 times as long, narrowly linear or subfiliform, glabrous or ciliate. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 1.75-4.5 mm long, linear, linear-or lanceolate-oblong, attenuate, acute or obtuse, cuneate or subfiliform at the base, ciliate except at the base and apex, or ciliate only on the lower or upper half, with an apical gland. Ovary hispid, pubescent or pilose on the apex, with 3 carpels bearing oblong processes usually pilose on the apex. Style glabrous.