Lachnaea stokoei Beyers

Low shrublet, ?height. Branches ascending to inclined, slender, ridged below leaf bases, internodes to as long as leaves, densely covered with long stiff adpressed hairs admixed with crooked hairs, later glabrescent, densely leafy, becoming naked with prominent leaf scars. Leaves alternate, ascending, scattered, distal 4-5 leaves below inflorescence crowded, sessile, epistomatic, narrowly-elliptic to ovate, 2.5-4.0 x 1.0-1.5 mm, coriaceous, green, glabrous with tuft of hairs at apex which may become naked later; adaxially widely concave, smooth, dull, ± white-punctulate; abaxially ± flat, faintly nervate, glossy, margin involute; apex subacute; base cuneate. Inflorescence a terminal, sessile, ebracteate, 4-8-flowered umbel with up to 3 open flowers at a time, on main flowering branches. Flowers subactinomorphic, ?cream. Pedicel 0.4-0.8 mm long, sericeous. Hypanthium 3.2-4.2 mm long, circumscissile 1/2-2/5 from base; upper portion obconical, sericeous outside, adpressed hairy inside; basal portion ellipsoid, sericeous outside, glabrous inside. Sepals ascending, subequal, elliptic to very widely ovate,1.0-1.8 x 1.2-1.8 mm, apex rounded, sericeous on both sides. Stamens partly exserted; outer, antesepalous whorl exserted and inner, antepetalous whorl semi-exserted; antesepalous whorl arising at base of sepals to 1/4 down upper portion of hypanthium; inner, antepetalous whorl arising 1/4-1/3 down upper portion of hypanthium (inner stamens the shortest); outer filaments 0.7-1.0 mm long, inner 0.2-0.6 mm long; anthers, ellipsoid, 0.4-0.6 mm long, abaxially without broad connective tissue. Floral scales included, arising ±1/3 down upper portion of hypanthium immediately below antepetalous stamens, semi-terete, elliptic in outline, abaxially attached to hypanthium, 0.3-0.4 mm long, glabrous. Ovary ellipsoid, 0.8-1.0 mm long, glabrous. Style terete-obconical, 2.2-3.0 mm long, with ascending incurled hairs throughout or only in upper three-quarters. Stigma conical and elongate-papillate.