Passerina montivaga Bredenk. & A.e.van Wyk

Low. spreading shrub 1(-2) m high, vigorous resprouter. Stems initially greyish tomentose, cork fissuring lengthwise into fine, dark grey, tomentose strips, older branchlets glabrous, with conspicuous leaf scars. Leaves sessile, spreading from stem at angle of ±45°; main vein sturdy: lamina cymbiform. folded along main vein, lanceolate, often slightly falcate, length x 1/2 width 5.6-7.0(-8.0) x 0.7-1.0 mm, tapering towards rounded apex, expanded at base, ciliate, coriaceous, smooth, greyish green; adaxial surface tomentose; abaxial surface glabrous; margin involute. Inflorescences subterminal, 10-20-flowered. composed of proliferating spikes, common. Bracts cymbiform. outside glabrous, inside basally setose; lamina coriaceous, ovate to obovate, length x 1/2 width ±6.3 x 1.6 mm, narrowing gradually into sturdy, leaf-like point of extended main vein, base cuneate: wings chartaceous ± 3-ribbed, obscurely veined, greyish green, margins conspicuously lined with strong white trichomes along distal half, often reaching up to apex. Floral envelope ±6.6 mm long, yellow-pink during pollination, tomentose at upper half of ovary, neck tomentose ±2.3 mm long; adaxial surface of outer and inner sepals glabrous, apex setose abaxially; outer sepals cymbiform, inner sepals obovate, ±2.1 x 1.3 mm. Androecium: filament of antipetalous whorl ±0.8 mm long, antisepalous whorl ±1.7 mm long; anthers ±0.8 x 0.3 mm. Ovary ±2.2 x 0.7 mm. Fruit enveloped by persistent, loosely arranged hypanthium fragmented at neck base; pericarp membranous and dry.