Neuradopsis austroafricana (Schinz) Bremek. & Oberm.

Annual herb with numerous prostrate or decumbent branches which are densely branched, up to 40 cm long, usually becoming somewhat woody. Leaves up to 3.5 x 1.0 cm; lamina ovate in outline with broadly cuneate base or rounded to elliptic with narrowly cuneate base, grey-cinnamomeous lanate-tomentose; margins irregularly crenate or serrate to pinnately lobed; petiole up to 10 mm long, lanate. Flowers showy; peduncles 3-6(18) mm long. Calyx c. 12 mm long, cinnamomeous-lanate; calyx-tube cyathiform, c. 15 x 25 mm, prolonged into a terete false tube c. 4 mm long formed by the basal part of the calyx-lobes which cohere by the interlocking of their indumentum; calyx-lobes narrowly oblong, ending in a triangular point c. 6 x 2 mm. Petals c. 20 x 10 mm, obovate, unguiculate, lemon-yellow, spreading. Stamens dimorphous; the 5 oppositipetalous ones c. 4 mm long, the alternipetalous ones up to 8 mm; filaments glabrous. Styles hairy, of 2 sizes in each flower; c. 5 or c. 8 mm long. Fruit c. 15 mm in diameter, depressed-discoid, crowned by the persistent styles and marcescent calyx-segments; upper part bearing a ring of 15 straight, curved or hooked prickles up to 6 mm long; lower part produced laterally into a circular wing up to 6 mm wide; wing somewhat concave, its margin bearing spines 1(2) mm long which are extensions of the nerves. The seedling (? always) perforates the fruit, which may be found, ± withered, at the base of some adult plants.