Diascia anastrepta Hilliard & B.L.Burtt

Stoloniferous perennial herb, stems many from the crown, subsimple to well-branched, up to c. 400 mm long, 2-3 mm diam., decumbent or suberect, lower part rooting, glabrous or nearly so on leafy parts, glandular-puberulous on the inflorescences. Leaves glabrous, mostly 10-25 x 8-20 mm, smaller upwards, ovate or elliptic-ovate, subacute or obtuse, base subcordate or broadly cuneate, margins subentire to serrate; petiole up to 8 mm long; uppermost leaves often subsessile. Flowers few to many in terminal racemes; bracts up to 6 x 4 mm, ovate-lanceolate, acute; pedicels mostly 20-35 mm long, often spreading widely particularly in fruit, glandular-pilose. Calyx segments lanceolate, two anticous ones 5 x 2.25 mm, three posticous ones slightly smaller, glandular-pilose. Corolla tube c. 6 mm long, shallowly invaginated between the spurs and with two parallel grooves down the back flanking the convex “window”, two lateral spurs c. 6-7 mm long, spreading at right angles to the tube, the tips upcurved, each with a patch of dark sessile glands within; limb c. 24 mm long, anticous lobe c. 12 x 12 mm, two lateral lobes c. 8 x 7 mm, two posticous lobes c. 6 x 6 mm, all subrotund, whole corolla rich pink with a white patch on outside on floor of tube and at base of anticous lobe, marking the hollow in which the two fully fertile stamens lie, sparsely glandular-pilose outside, glabrous inside except for two patches of dark sessile glands at the mouth of tube and base of anticous lobe flanking the essential organs and sometimes a few similar glands around the sinuses of the four upper lobes, “window” elongate, concave, reaching nearly to the base of the filaments where it merges into a short boss, yellow marked with dark blotches and surrounded by a crimson suffusion. Stamens with filaments of the anticous pair arching up and forward, c. 6 mm long, glandular-pubescent in upper part, anthers greatly reduced, sometimes sterile, sometimes producing a little yellow pollen; filaments of the posticous pair reclining in a hollow in the floor of the corolla tube and base of anticous lip; anthers c. 1.5 mm long, pollen green. Ovary c. 2.5 x 1.25 mm, lanceolate in outline, ovules many in each loculus, style c. 3 mm long, reclining; stigma capitate, lying between the lower pair of anthers. Capsule up to 15 x 7 mm, lanceolate in outline; seeds c. 1.5 mm long, curved, winged and ridged.