Kogelbergia verticillata (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Rourke

Small, rigid, well-branched shrublet up to 1 m high with a single main trunk up to 50 mm diam. Flowering branches 2-3 mm diam., densely lanate initially, later becoming glabrous. Leaves in whorls of 5, patent to slightly recurved, ericoid, narrowly lanceolate, 10-12 x 2 mm, apices prominently mucronate, upper surface glabrous when mature, under surface lanate, margins recurved. Inflorescence a sessile, globose, much condensed panicle 15-22 mm diam.; lateral axes much condensed, bearing 3 or 4 flowers; each flower subtended by a lanceolate-acute, apically mucronate bract and two opposite floral bracts. Floral bracts very narrowly oblanceolate, glabrous basally but lanately crinite apically. Calyx actinomorphic, tubular, 5 mm long, of 5 equal lobes (but anterior sepals slightly thicker at base), fused into a glabrous tube for XL of their length; free lobes very narrowly oblanceolate, glabrous basally but lanately crinite apically. Corolla 8-10 mm long, funnel-form, tubular, tube region glabrous, hyaline, actinomorphic but the 2 posterior petals erect, three anterior petals patent at anthesis; throat fringed with a dense ring of lanate pubescence; lobes at anthesis linear-acuminate, densely tomentose. Stamens 4, prominently exserted. 5 mm long, inserted between corolla lobes; posterior stamen absent; anthers versatile, dorsifixed, saggitate. Ovary ellipsoid, purple in upper half, bilaterally flattened, single-chambered with 2 basal ovules in chamber; style straight, terete, 6-7 mm long. Seed cylindric-ovoid, 2 mm long, surface colliculate, tending to tuberculate basally, pale straw-coloured.