Agathosma spinescens Dummer

Branchlets puberulous, becoming rigid and spine-like when dry. Leaves usually 5-7 mm long, sometimes 1 cm long, opposite or alternate, erect-spreading, ovate, lanceolate or rarely rotund, acute, subacute or obtuse, rounded at the base, slightly concave above, thickened at the margin, gland-crenate, with a few glands beside a raised nerve, glabrous or puberulous. Flowers in terminal clusters or often 2 together on very short branchlets. Peduncles about 5 mm long, pubescent, ebracteolate. Sepals 3-4 mm long, widely ovate or elliptic, obtuse or subacute, ciliate, puberulous above and beneath or glabrous. Petals about 6 mm long, oblong-or elliptic-ovate, very obtuse, cuneate at the base, glabrous, or puberulous above at the base. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 2-2.5 mm long, oblong-elliptic, tapering to a large terminal gland, dorsally compressed, pubescent above about the middle. Ovary papillate, glabrous, with 5 carpels bearing oblong processes somewhat bi-or trilobed, deeply furrowed above. Style glabrous. Fruit tubercled.