Brunia schlechteri (Dümmer) Class.-bockh. & E.G.H.Oliv.

About 1.5 m high, with pubescent upper branches and branchlets. Leaves 1.75-2.25 mm long, sessile, partly imbricate, appressed, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, obtusely angular-convex and scabrid on the dorsal surface, pilose on the median vein of the concave ventral surface. Flower heads about 4 mm wide. Bract leaf-like but smaller. Bracteoles oblong, deeply concave on the ventral surface, ciliate, scarcely reaching to the middle of the sepals. Calyx-tube pubescent, with a shallow cup-shaped free upper part: calyx-lobes deltoid-ovate, obtuse, glabrous on both surfaces, ciliate, reaching to the middle of the petals. Petals about 1-5 mm long, obovate, obtuse, glabrous, bicarinate below the middle. Stamens reaching to well above the middle of the petals: anthers rotund. Ovary 3/4 inferior, pubescent, with 2 biovulate chambers: styles free. Fruit unknown.