Anisodontea theronii D.M.Bates

Shrubs to 1.2 m tall, densely but closely stellate-lepidote-pubescent, the hairs tawny, short-stalked, the arms more or less horizontal. Leaf blades dull gray-green, moderately thickened, ovate, up to 3.5 cm long. 2.9 cm broad, unlobed or very obscurely 3-lobed, the apex broadly rounded, the base more or less truncate, the margins plane, shallowly crenate or dentate, the surfaces copiously yellowish-white-pubescent above and below; stipules subulate about 2 mm long, less than 1 mm broad. Inflorescence few-flowered, the flowers solitary or 2 in the upper leaf axils, generally exceeded by the subtending leaf, the pedicels up to 1.2 cm long, articulate near the apex. Involucral bracts 3, rather inconspicuous, drying early, 2.5-3.5 mm long, subfiliform, less than half as long as the calyx. Calyx globose, without angles in bud, 8 mm long, densely pubescent, the lobes 4.5-6 mm Iong, 2.8-3.5 mm broad, narrowly deltoid to ovate, long-acute or gradually acuminate up to 3 times as long as the tube. Petals pink (fide collection labels) probably deeper-colored below, slightly exceeding the calyx, up to 12 mm long, 10 mm broad, moderately obliquely emarginate above, narrowed quite abruptly below into a broad, basally biauriculate claw, dorsally glabrous, the claw ventrally copiously puberulent, the auricles rather stiffly bearded. Staminal column nearly equaling the petals, up to 8 mm long, drying yellowish, copiously pubescent from base to filaments, the hairs simple to few-branched, up to 1 mm long; filaments arising over the upper 2-3 mm of the column; anthers more than 50. Style branches glabrous; stigmas capitate or slightly decurrent. Fruit more or less truncate-oblong in lateral view, not exceeding the calyx copiously stellate-pubescent over all exposed surfaces but the lowermost; carpels 8, biovulate, scarious, exposed surfaces reddish above, sometimes greenish or greenish-black below, otherwise brownish, up to ca. 6.5 mm high, 2.8 mm broad broadest above the middle, the apex rounded, the lateral walls smooth above, the lower 2 mm or so fenestrate with the interconnections well developed, the endoglossum laterally expanded, strongly keeled, dividing the locule into two univolute cells, the upper cell loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds generally 2, ca. 1.9-2.2 mm high, 1.6 mm broad, brownish, moderately pubescent.