Brunia variabilis (Pillans) Class.-bockh. & E.G.H.Oliv.

Usually 30-40 cm high, with tomentose branchlets. Leaves 2-3 mm long, sessile, partly imbricate, ascending, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, obtuse, apiculate; the dorsal surface rounded-convex or obtusely angled, sparsely villous or glabrous; the ventral surface deeply concave, mostly villous, or only at the base. Flowers usually in terminal clusters of 3-9, rarely solitary. Bract leaf-like but smaller. Bracteoles about as long as the calyx-tube, narrowly oblanceolate, navicular, villous on the dorsal surface. Calyx-tube ± pubescent, often becoming glabrous, with a free upper part: calyx-lobes lanceolate, apiculate, villous on the dorsal surface. Petals 1.5-2 (rarely 2.5-2.75) mm long, obovate, elliptic or obovate-elliptic, cuneate at base, glabrous or with a few hairs on the upper half of the dorsal surface, with converging keels near the base. Stamens reaching near or to the tips of the petals: anthers 0-5-1 mm long, oblong or elliptic. Ovary 1/2 inferior, villous on the upper part, with 2 uniovulate chambers: styles free, 0.75-1.25 mm long. Fruit unknown.