Euchaetis schlechteri Schinz

Shrubs 250-350 mm tall, with several erect stems arising from a stoutish root-stock which may survive veld burning. Branches di-/tri-chotomate, slender, minutely puberulous, not hidden by the leaves, becoming glabrous and somewhat rough with leaf scars. Leaves varying up to 15 mm long, 2 mm broad, narrowly lanceolate, mucronate, often drawn out into a sharp point, keeled, erect spreading or recurved, alternate or opposite; margins scabrid, ciliate at first; abaxial surface and keel crisped pubescent at first becoming glabrescent. Without conspicuous gland dots; petiole very short. Inflorescence terminal, the flowers aggregated into compact globose heads, in groups of up to nine at the ends of up to five branchlets. Bract one, leaf-like, 5-7.5 mm long, 1.5 mm broad. Bracteoles two, 2.3-4.5 mm long, 1 mm broad, lanceolate, acute, ciliate, minutely crisped pubescent, reddened above. Calyx lobes five, 3-4.2 mm long, 1.6 mm broad, lanceolate, pubescent, ciliate; apex acute, purplish; margins translucent below; adaxial surface beneath the elevated purplish rib is hollowed and pubescent. Petals five, 4.7-5.3 mm long, white or somewhat pink; limb 1.5-2 mm broad, elliptic, glabrous, minutely serrulate; claw 1.5 mm broad, narrowing to 0.5 mm below, transversely bearded and ciliate above, one or two hairs scattered below. Staminodes five, 0.15 mm diam., globose, vestigial. Filaments five, becoming 1.5 mm long, subulate, glabrous. Anthers five, before anthesis 0.8 mm long, 0.7 mm broad, wine-coloured; apical gland spherical, minute. Pollen 53 µ long, 28 µ diam., obloid. Disc stands open, sinuate-crenulate, exceeding the ovary, fleshy, dark green, exudes nectar. Stigma 0.6-1 mm diam., capitate, dark green. Style becoming 1.2 mm long, glabrous, virtually always erect. Ovary 5-carpellate, glabrous, lobes reddened, obtuse. Fruit 5-carpellate, 6.3 mm long overall, almost glabrous except for a few minute hairs; horns 1.8 mm long, minutely cleft without any gland; style persisting. Seed 3.5 mm long, 1.8 mm broad, black, shining, the surface rippled; aril small, black.