Euchaetis burchellii Dümmer

Shrubs to 1 m tall forming a dense bush with many stems arising from a stout rootstock. Branches short, fairly erect, bark scaly and rough. Branchlets numerous, slender, very short, puberulous, well-clothed with leaves. Leaves to 4.5 mm long, 1.5 mm broad, lanceolate, obtuse without any mucro, sub-trigonal, glabrous, eciliate, sessile, opposite, erect, sub-imbricate, decussate, about twice times longer than the internodes. Inflorescence terminal, usually twin, white or pink. Bract one to each flower. 1.9 mm long, 1.3 mm broad, ovate, obtuse, glabrous, thickened towards the apex, sessile, very sparsely ciliate, midrib 1-2 gland-dotted. Bracteoles two, 1.6 mm long, 0.8 mm broad, elliptic, obtuse, glabrous, apex thickened; margins broadly translucent, ciliolate. Calyx lobes five, 2 mm long, 1.5-2 mm broad, roughly orbicular, glabrous; apex blunt, trigonal, green; margins broadly translucent, ciliolate. Petals 3.7-4 mm long, 2.5 mm broad; limb orbicular. 1-2 gland-dotted; claw transversely bearded, midrib pubescent, margins ciliate. Staminodes vestigial, 0.15 mm long, 0.1 mm diam. Filaments five, 1.3 mm long, pale, acicular. Anthers five, 0.6 mm long, wine-coloured; apical gland minute. Pollen 52 µ long, 32 µ broad, ellipsoid with three longitudinal grooves. Disc closes over the ovary at first. Stigma 0.5 mm diam., globose, capitate. Style becoming 1.5 mm long, erect, persisting. Ovary 5-carpellate, 0.7 mm diam., with a few hairs at the sides towards the apex of each segment. Fruit 5-carpellate, 6 mm long overall, glabrous, gland-dotted; horns 1.2 mm long, clasping a gland at the tip. Seed 4.2-4.8 mm long, 1.8-2 mm broad, black, shining; aril white.