Lobostemon hottentoticus Levyns

Resprouting shrub, 30-60 cm high. Branches caulous, antrorse, herbaceous and woody branches glabrous. Leaves herbaceous, cauline, transversely applanate to incurved, longitudinally straight, dead basal leaves not persistent, (10-)12-40(-41) x (3-)4-7(-9) mm, lanceolate, adaxially appearing sparsely hairy, hairs unevenly spread, largely confined to margin and apex, abaxially sparsely or copiously hairy, if sparsely hairy then hairs unevenly spread, largely confined to margin, apex and mid-vein, indumentum spinous and umbonate, hairs similar in length, trichomes simple or pustular; leaf margin entire; apex acuminate; mid-vein abaxially unobtrusive. Inflorescence of many flowered, compound cincinni, young flowering axis unelongated, flower buds loosely arranged to form a globose unit, spreading or not spreading greatly in fruiting stage. Bracts (8-)10-20(-21) x (2-)3-8(-9) mm, ovate. Flowers medium sized (anterior petals 17-30 mm long), more than three per cymule, funnel-shaped. Sepals linear to lanceolate, less than half of corolla length, dissimilar in width, free, adaxially sparsely hairy, more or less evenly spread across the whole surface, abaxially appearing glabrous, but often sparsely hairy, hairs unevenly spread, largely confined to margin and apex, non-velutinous; young apices applanate, brown trichomes on the adaxial surface wanting. Petals dissimilar, the anterior petal lobes larger than the rest, posterior petals ca. 16-17 mm long, posterior petal lobes ca. 5 mm long, anterior petals ca. 20-21 mm long, anterior petal lobes ca. 6 mm long, predominantly white-cream or pink; abaxially glabrous. Stamens dissimilar in length, slightly exserted in adult flowers; anthers dorsifixed; filaments free from petals to shortly adnate (< 5 mm) above staminal scales. Staminal scales inserted below the throat of the corolla tube, 3.5 mm above the base of the corolla tube (ca. 1/4 of the way up the tube), usually well-developed, rounded, lateral lobes present, villous, area between scales also hairy. Style median sections hairy. Mericarpids ovoid-trigonous; tuberculate; hairs absent; lateral ridges prominent; dorsal side acute; dorsal keel prominent; ventral keel prominent.