Diascia stachyoides Schltr. ex Hiern

Stoloniferous perennial herb, stems many from the crown, tufted, branching, up to c. 400 mm long, 2 mm diam., decumbent or suberect, softly glandular-pilose, hairs patent. Leaves mostly 10-25 x 8-25 mm in the proportion 1-1.5:1, diminishing in size upwards, ovate, base ± cordate, apex obtuse to rounded, margins serrate, both surfaces glandular-pilose; petioles 1-3.5 mm long, glandular-pilose. Flowers several to many in lax terminal racemes, bracts up to 10 x 12 mm, many of them leaf-like, ovate-cordate, glandular-pilose; pedicels c. 14-26 mm long, ascending at an angle of 45°-90°, filiform, glandular-pilose, hairs patent, mostly at least 0.5 mm long. Calyx segments lanceolate, reflexed, two anticous lobes 3-5 x 1.25-1.5 mm, three posticous lobes slightly smaller, all green, pilose outside with patent gland-tipped hairs. Corolla tube c. 4 mm long, strongly invaginated, two lateral spurs c. 4-7 mm long, directed out, then down, slightly incurved at the tips, tips with dark sessile glands within; limb c. 17-19 x 16-18 mm, anticous lobe 7.5-10 x 10-11 mm, subrotund, two lateral lobes c. 5 x 7 mm, subrotund, two posticous lobes c. 4 x 5.5 mm, subrotund; all lobes rose-pink, sparsely glandular-pilose outside, either glabrous inside or with a few dark sessile glands centrally placed on the palate, which has a double groove down the back to accommodate the filaments, the “window” deeply concave, forming a small hollow cone 1.5-3.75 mm long, 2.25-3 mm across at the base, yellow and maroon part mostly hidden within the cavity. Stamens projecting forward from the base of the boss formed by the invaginated corolla tube; filaments 2.5 mm long, glandular-pilose; anthers 0.75 mm long, cohering strongly, pollen yellow. Ovary 1.5-1.75 x 1-1.5 mm, deltoid in outline, ovules many in each loculus; style 1.5 mm long, stigma capitate, lying in the centre of the anthers. Capsules not seen.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.