Dyerophytum africanum Kuntze

Shrublet or shrub up to about 1 m high; branches slender, striate, glaucous. Leaves alternate and rather distant, somewhat fleshy, broadly cuneate-obtuse to obcordate, rarely mucronate at the apex, up to 20 cm long and 1.2 cm broad, more or less coated with calcareous granules, and tapering into a petiole up to about 1 cm long. Flowers patent. Calyx segments ovate-elliptic, abruptly acuminate, about 8 mm long, 4 mm broad, cohering along the margins from about 2/3 of the total length. Corolla tube subcylindric, 8 mm long; lobes cuneate or obcordate, cuspidate in the sinus, 4 mm long, 3 mm broad. Stamens with slender filaments, anthers 1 mm long, sagittate. Ovary oblong, acuminate, 2 mm long, 5-angled; style up to 7 mm long, pubescent in lower 2/3. divided into 2 mm long branches papillate on inner surface. Capsule about as long as the persistent calyx.