Dorstenia hildebrandtii Engl.

Herb up to ± 70 cm. tall, rhizomatous (or tuberous); stems ascending to erect, branched (the branches often arrested, with minute leaves) or unbranched, fleshy to sometimes thickly succulent, the basal part often swollen, sometimes forming a globose to pear-shaped tuber up to 4 cm. across, the leafy part 1–5(–7) mm. in diameter, glabrous to sparsely puberulous; scars of the leaves, stipules and inflorescences often conspicuous and prominent.. Leaves in spirals; lamina chartaceous to papyraceous when dry, oblong to elliptic, lanceolate, oblanceolate or linear, (0.5–)1–12(–20) × (0.3–)1–16 cm., apex obtuse to acute, base cuneate to attenuate or sometimes subobtuse; margin ± irregularly and sometimes coarsely crenate to dentate, sometimes subentire, when dry sometimes ± revolute; upper surface glabrous and smooth, scabridulous or sparsely puberulous on the midrib, lower surface puberulous to glabrous; lateral veins 2–10(–12) pairs; petiole (0.1–)0.2–2(–3) cm. long, 0.5–1 mm. thick, puberulous, mainly adaxially; stipules subulate to ovate, up to 1.5(–2) mm. long, persistent.. Inflorescences solitary or sometimes in pairs; peduncle 0.2–1.2(–2.5) cm. long, ± 0.5 mm. thick, sometimes recurved.. Receptacle discoid to broadly turbinate or funnel-shaped, sometimes subnaviculate,0.4–1.2 cm. in diameter (or wide); flowering face subcircular to substellate or narrowly elliptic to 3–6-angular, margin very narrow or lacking; appendages in 2 rows, the inner (marginal) row numerous, semi-circular to triangular, up to 2 mm. long, forming a crenate to dentate rim, outer (submarginal) row 2–12, narrowly triangular to band-shaped or filiform, (2–)5–22(–25) mm. long.. Staminate flowers crowded or slightly spaced; perianth-lobes (2–)3(–4); stamens (2–)3(–4).. Pistillate flowers numerous, scattered; perianth tubular; stigmas 2.. Endocarp-body tetrahedral, 1–1.5 mm. in diameter, slightly tuberculate.