Agathosma thymifolia Schltdl.

A low shrub. Branchlets minutely puberulous on strips alternating with the bases of the leaves. Leaves 3.5-4 mm long, alternate, erect-spreading or spreading, obovate, obovate-oblong or rotund, rounded at the base and apex, dorsally compressed, slightly convex above, slightly recurved at the margin, glabrous, with impressed glands and a slightly raised nerve beneath, ± gibbous behind the apex. Flowers in terminal clusters. Peduncles 4-4.5 mm long, sparsely puberulous, with small bracteoles on the lower half. Sepals 1.5 mm long, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous, convex and with raised glands beneath. Petals 4 mm long, glabrous; blade obovate-oblong, very obtuse; claw half as long, narrowly linear. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 3-3.5 mm long, oblanceolate-linear in the upper half, acute, narrowly linear and sparsely ciliate in the lower half, tipped with a minute gland. Ovary minutely tubercled, with 3 carpels bearing rotund slightly refuse processes. Style glabrous.