Lessertia dykei L.Bolus

Diffuse, procumbent to semi-prostrate herbs; stems up to 0.2 m long, branching mostly from the slightly woody bases; stems, branches (especially younger ones), petioles and racheae sericeo-tomentose; hairs stiff, pointed, markedly curved at bases. Leaves 19-48 mm long, 10-15 mm apart; leaflets 4-6 x 2-4 mm, 7-8-jugate, oblong-elliptic to obovate, apex emarginate or obtuse to obcordate, base cuneate, upper surface glabrous, lower surface strigose, margins sometimes very slightly involute; petiole 10 mm long; stipules 2.4 x 1.4 mm, ovate-acuminate, pubescent (as stem). Inflorescence 13-57 mm long (x = 43 mm), with 5-9 flowers crowded near the apex of the peduncle; peduncle strigoso-tomentose. Bracts 2-3 mm long (x = 2.4 mm), narrowly elliptic, acute, fringed with hairs. Pedicel 2-3 mm long, much shorter than the calyx, strigose. Calyx 4-6 mm long, unequally 5-lobed; tube 2-3 mm long; lobes 2-3 mm long, narrowly triangular, acuminate, strigose to tomentose without, sericeous within. Corolla pink; standard 5.5-8.5 x 7 mm, broadly ovate, apex retuse to rounded; wings 6-7.5 x 2 mm, oblong, obtuse; keel 8 x 6 mm, obliquely oblong, obtuse. Gynoecium: ovary 5 mm long, stipitate, narrowly elliptic, sericeous (particularly along sutures); ovules many; style 2 mm long, bearded dorsally for one third of its length and around stigmatic surface; stigma asymmetric, semi-clavate. Pods 19-21 x 10-11 mm, obliquely ovate, laterally compressed, slightly inflated, pubescent, apiculate. Seeds 4-6.