Phyllosma capensis Bolus ex Schltr.

Shrubs 0.3-0.4 mm tall, growing from crevices in massive rocks of the Table Mountain Sandstone with several stems arising from a single stem at base. Branches short, not very numerous, variously bent; bark rough ashy-grey. Branchlets very short, erect, puberulous, not hidden by the leaves. Leaves 10-13 mm long, 2.3 mm broad, linear-oblong, thick, alternate, spreading or on new twigs ascending incurved-imbricate; apex mucronate, sub-acute; margins revolute, gland-dotted, densely pubescent at the edge, rounded at the base to a petiole 1.5 mm long, puberulous; adaxial surface at first thinly crisped puberulous becoming sub-scabrid; abaxial surface mostly enfolded with only the midrib showing, very densely short-pubescent; midrib thick, gland-dotted. Inflorescence terminal, 3-4 nate, sessile; petals white to pink, spreading about 15 mm diam. Bract 5-6.5 mm long, 2.1-1.4 mm broad, lanceolate-caudate, acute, densely puberulous on all sides; margins densely lanate-ciliate, not translucent; midrib prominent, gland-dotted. Bracteoles two, 5 mm long, 2 mm broad, lanceolate, acute, sub-apiculate, densely ciliate, puberulous on all sides, reddened above semi-translucent. Calyx lobes five, 7-7.5 mm long, 2.2-2.8 mm broad, lanceolate, acute; apex red-mucronate, pubescent; margins densely crisped ciliate; adaxial surface sparsely crisped puberulous above; abaxial surface densely puberulous; midrib prominent, gland-dotted, reddened. Petals five, 15 mm long overall; limb 10 mm long, 4.5 mm broad, elliptic, minutely apiculate, 3 or 4 minute hairs at the apex, pinkish-white, narrowed below to a claw 5 mm long, very sparsely pubescent at the throat on all sides but mainly up the midrib. Staminodes virtually absent, on the disc between the filaments one can see five minute lumps which are undoubtedly the vestiges of staminodes. Filaments five, becoming 11 mm long, hispid. Anthers five, before anthesis, 2.5 mm long, 1 mm broad, red at first becoming greenish; apical gland, 0.3 mm diam., sessile. Pollen 53 µ long, 22 µ broad, oblong, green. Disc flat, level with the base of the filaments, thin with rather irregular membranous flaps pointing inwards towards the style, at first hiding the ovary, green, nectariferous. Stigma 0.2 mm diam., simple, reddened. Style becoming 14 mm long, hispid in the lower three quarters. Ovary 5-carpellate, 1.2 mm long, 1.3 mm diam.; apices obtuse, densely velvety. Fruit 5-carpellate, 6.5 mm long, 5 mm diam., puberulous, gland-dotted and with scattered stalked glands; horns 4.2-4.8 mm long, erect, finger-like, obtuse, puberulous, gland-dotted and with scattered stalked glands. Seed 4.75 mm long, 1.75 mm broad, black, shining; aril black.