Kogelbergia phylicoides (A.Dc.) Rourke

Small, upright, multiple-stemmed, lignotuberous shrublet, 0.5-1.0 m tall. Flowering branches sparsely sericeous initially, soon glabrous, 1-3 mm diam.; lower branches covered in prominent leaf scars. Leaves in pseudowhorls of 5-7, patent to slightly incurved, ericoid, very narrowly lanceolate-linear. 5-12 x 1 mm. glabrous, apices curved upwards, strongly mucronate. Inflorescence a sessile, globose to ovoid terminal spike, 20-25 x 15 mm. usually solitary, occasionally with up to 3 axillary spikes clustered below; each flower subtended by a lanceolate-cymbiform bract, sericeous proximally, apex glabrous, mucronate. Floral bracts 2, narrowly lanceolate-acuminate. 5-7 x 1 mm, sparsely sericeous, hyaline. Flowers sessile. Calyx with 5 sepals; sepals free, narrowly lanceolate, 6-7 x 1 mm. hyaline to papyraceous, upper half sericeous, apices prominently rostrate; posterior sepal smaller than remainder. Corolla actinomorphic. 8-10 mm long; lobes narrowly lanceolate-acuminate, patent, densely pubescent mainly on inner surface, 2-3 mm long; tube glabrous 4-5 mm long; throat fringed with dense ring of pubescence. Stamens 4, exserted, 5-6 mm long, inserted between corolla lobes; posterior stamen absent, anthers versatile, dorsifixed, saggitate. Ovary 1 mm long, ovoid, bilaterally flattened, single-chambered with two basal, erect ovules; style straight, terete, 6 mm long. Seeds not seen.