Dicliptera transvaalensis C.B.Clarke

Scrambling, trailing or decumbent suffruticose perennial, several-branched from a woody rootstock, to 1 m long, sometimes rooting at nodes of trailing portion; stems 6-angular, pale-ridged, with rather dense pale spreading or retrorse eglandular hairs. Leaves sometimes immature at flowering, lanceolate or narrowly ovate, 2.3-5 x 0.4-1.3 cm, base cuneate or shortly attenuate, apex acute, apiculate, surfaces pale-pubescent, particularly on veins beneath and midrib above; lateral veins 4-5 pairs; petiole 2-7 mm long. Inflorescence axillary, 1(2) umbels of (1)2-4(5) cymules per axil, umbels often partially compounded; umbel peduncle 4-32 mm long, umbels in uppermost axils rarely sessile; main axis bracts linear-lanceolate, 4-9 x 0.5-1 mm, those of lowermost umbels on stems sometimes more leafy and lanceolate, to 13 x 3 mm; cymules pedunculate, usually with peduncle of one cymule much longer than others, (2)5-32 mm long; cymule bracts green or smaller of pair turning brown, pairs ± highly unequal, ratio 1.25-1.9:1, larger bract subulate or slightly oblanceolate, (9)12-18 x 1.5-3(3.5) mm, apex mucronulate, external surface pale spreading-pubescent throughout, only midrib prominent, margin pale-hyaline in lower half; bracteoles as cymule bracts but lanceolate, 8-10.5 x 1.5 mm. Calyx lobes 5-6 mm long, with or without few minute glandular hairs, margin hyaline, ciliate. Corolla 17-20 mm long, pink to mauve with purple guidelines, pubescent externally; tube 7-9 mm long; lip held in upper position narrowly oblong, 8-11 x 2.5-3.5 mm, palate puberulous towards mouth; lip held in lower position ovate or elliptic, 8-11 x 5.5-8.5 mm. Staminal filaments 4.5-7 mm long, pubescent; anther thecae 0.7-1 mm long, superposed. Style sparsely strigulose or glabrous. Capsule 9.5-11 mm long, pale eglandular-pubescent; placental base inelastic. Seeds c.2 mm in diameter, sparsely tuberculate mainly around rim, tubercles shortly clavate.