Diosma haelkraalensis I.Williams

Shrubs 0.10-0.30 m tall, decumbent, 1 m diam., forming dense mats. Branches tough, prostrate, bent at all angles; bark rough. Branchlets short, sub-erect, glabrous or minutely puberulous, pale, shining without any gland dots, well-clothed with leaves, but not hidden. Leaves 3.8-4.2 mm long, 1.8-2.2 mm broad, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or sub-acute with a small blunt mucro, glabrous, gland-dotted towards midrib and margins, sessile, opposite, ternate, spreading or reflexed and somewhat recurved; margins narrowly translucent, serrulate-denticulate to setulose towards the base. Inflorescence terminal, solitary or twin, 5-5.5 mm diam., white; calyx glabrous, shining. Bract 1.5 mm long, 1 mm broad, ovate-lanceolate with a blunt point, glabrous, spreading; margins below ciliolate and broadly translucent. Bracteoles two, 1.2 mm long, 1 mm broad, ovate, obtuse, glabrous; margins minutely ciliolate, narrowly translucent. Calyx lobes five, 1.7 mm long, 1.2 mm broad, deltoid, glabrous; apex thickened, somewhat recurved; margins below ciliolate and broadly translucent. Petals five, 2.2-2.3 mm long, 1.5 mm broad, ovate, somewhat thickened at the tip, glabrous, white, sessile, spreading. Staminodes five, an immersed vestigial gland at the summit of the lobe of the disc very close to the base of the petal. Filaments five, acicular, glabrous, becoming 1.8 mm long after anthesis. Anthers five, before anthesis 1.3 mm long, 0.8 mm broad, dorsally somewhat pink, yellow in front; apical gland globose, semi-immersed. Disc stands open, exceeds the ovary by a long way; margin sinuate-crenulate, fleshy, dark green, exudes nectar. Stigma 0.25 mm diam., globose, capitellate. Style deflexed at first, becoming 1.5 mm long, glabrous. Ovary 5-carpellate, 0.6 mm long, 0.7 mm diam., glabrous with the apices roughened with a dense layer of minute conical points (spiculate). Fruit (from Williams 2503 ) 5-carpellate, 7-8 mm long overall, 5.5 mm diam., glabrous; horns about 3 mm long, sparsely and minutely setulose above; apices obtuse sub-emarginate with an immersed gland. Seed 3.5-4 mm long overall, 1.6-2 mm broad, black, shining.