Lepidium transvaalense Marais

Small perennial herbs, several-stemmed from a woody crown or sometimes with branched woody stems, 15-25 cm high, sparsely to densely retrorse pubescent. Basal leaves pinnately 9-15-lobed, the lobes variously lobed with rounded lobules. Lower stem leaves 2.5-5 cm long, narrow, pinnately 9-lobed with short (0.5 cm) lanceolate lobes, or leaves broadly oblanceolate, shortly lobed. Middle stem leaves 0.5-3 cm long, pinnately 3-7-lobed with short sharp lobes, puberulous (especially on the lower surface), ciliolate. Upper leaves sharply toothed, linear-oblanceolate to cuneate-oblanceolate. Racemes terminal, in fruit dense, 4-8(-12) cm long. Pedicels puberulous on the upper surface, ascending or arcuate. Sepals 0.6-0.8 mm long, oblong, membranous-margined. Petals 0.3-0.4 mm long, white. Stamens 2; filaments subulate. Nectaries small, triangular. Siliculae 1.8-2.5 x 1.4-1.7 mm, ovate-oblong to subcircular-oblong, shallowly emarginate, the style included in the sinus. Seeds 0.9-1 x 0.4-0.6 mm, brown.

It is a subtropical plant. It is rare in Swaziland.