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Perennial herb, 0.06-0.20 m high; stems arising from persistent taproot. Leaves 6-10 x 2-6 mm; shortly petiolate; elliptic, ovate or obovate; nerves 3-or 4-paired; translucent-yellow gland dots and submarginal dark dots. Sepals 4.5-6.0 x 1-2 mm; distinctly veined. Petals 5-8 x 2-3 mm; yellow or orange. Stamens 18-30; 3 or 4 groups, cohering at base; anthers with dark gland at end of connective. Ovary ovoid. Fruit a capsule.
Perennial herb, up to 0.2 m high. Stems terete, procumbent. Leaves sessile or shortly petiolate, blade elliptic, ovate or obovate, 6-10 x 2-6 mm long. Flowers: in a few-flowered cyme; sepals unequal, apices obtuse to rounded, yellow gland-dotted, usually a few dark glands along margins; corolla 5-8 mm long, yellow or orange, dark gland-dotted along margins; Nov.-Apr.
Leaves shortly petiolate, rarely almost sessile; lamina 3–15 × 2–8 mm., variable in shape and size, obovate or ovate to oblong or almost orbicular, rounded at the apex, cuneate to rounded at the base, with numerous translucent glandular dots which vary in size, the larger ones prominent and yellowish, and with dark glandular dots round the margins.
Perennial herb, 60-200 mm tall. Stems terete, procumbent. Leaves shortly petiolate. Sepals obtuse to rounded, unequal, yellow gland-dotted and with 0-few dark dots along margin. Styles 3-5, free. Flowers yellow or orange, dark gland-dotted along margin.
Petals 5–9 mm. long, 11/2–2 times as long as the sepals, primrose to bright yellow, occasionally red-tinged, with dark glandular dots confined to the margin (but with dark streaks on the lamina in two S. Rhodesian gatherings).
Stems 10–20 (30) cm. long, ± procumbent, numerous, ± branched, arising from a persistent tap root, terete, or sometimes ± flattened or 2-lined above, ± densely spotted with dark glands or eglandular.
Sepals oblong, or the outer ones obovate, rounded at the apex, unequal; with translucent and dark dots, the dark ones usually confined to the margin, but occasionally occurring elsewhere.
Stamens c. 25–30, irregularly arranged or in 3 or 4 indistinct groups, with filaments united at the base; anthers with a dark gland at the end of the connective.
Flowers in terminal few-flowered leafy cymes or solitary; pedicels 4–10 mm. long, usually erect in fruit ( ± reflexed in some S. Rhodesian specimens).
Fruit capsular, 3-to 4-valved, erect (rarely ± reflexed).
Ovary 3–4-locular; styles 3–4, free, 1·5–2·5 mm. long.
Perennial herb.
