Agathosma umbonata Pillans

About 60 cm high. Branchlets densely clothed with long spreading grey hairs. Leaves 1-1.5 cm long, alternate, erect-spreading, lanceolate, apiculate, rounded at the base, concave above, pilose-ciliate, rounded and with many small scattered glands beneath, often pilose beneath on the nerve. Flowers axillary, solitary. Peduncle 0.5 mm long, glabrous, subtended by oblong obtuse bracteoles. Sepals 1 mm long, lanceolate-ovate, obtuse ciliolate, convex beneath. Petals 6 mm long, oblong-lanceolate, subacute, concave and sparsely villous above, ciliolate on the lower half, with 2 rows of glands beneath. Stamens glabrous, with an apical gland on the connective. Staminodes 1.5 mm long, oblanceolate-oblong, with a round terminal gland, ciliolate on the upper half. Disk with obtuse teeth, closely enveloping the ovary. Ovary pubescent on the apex, with 2 carpels without evident processes, or sometimes with a minute papilla-like process on the apex of the dorsal angle. Style glabrous. Fruit 1-seeded; coccus elliptic, laterally compressed, hispid on the upper half, surmounted by a prominent widely deltoid hump.