Didymodoxa capensis (L.F.) Friis & Wilmot-dear

Prostrate to erect annual herb up to 0.35 m high. Stems glabrous when young, or with sparse to dense stiff hairs. Leaves ovate to elliptic, 8-45(-55) x 6-38 mm, apex bluntly acute, acute or sometimes acuminate, base broadly cuneate, margin entire or with 5-15 pairs of crenations or teeth, upper surface with sparse stiff hairs, lower with long stiff hairs on veins and short stiff scattered hairs; petiole 3-38 mm long; stipules triangular, ovate or broadly lanceolate, up to 5.5 mm long, membranous with green midrib, reticulation or margin, ciliate. Inflorescence usually bisexual, occasionally of a single female flower only, up to 4 mm in diameter; bracts with cilia up to 2 mm long, lanceolate, often translucent. Female flowers with stiff hairs, up to 2 mm long, may fuse in pairs. Male flowers acute to shortly acuminate, ciliate, up to 2 x 1 mm long; perianth wider than in D. caffra. Achenes up to 2.5 mm long, double fruits up to 3.5 mm long.

It is a subtropical plant.