Pomaria sandersonii (Harv.) B.B.Simpson & G.P.Lewis

Suffrutex with several erect herbaceous annual stems up to 40 cm high arising from a slender woody rhizome. Stems with sparsely crisped to densely spreading hairs interspersed with conspicuous longer usually pink or reddish-brown setae up to 2.5 mm long; dark glands present but inconspicuous except on leaflets and calyces. Stipules up to 15x2 mm, linear-lanceolate, with marginal setae or sometimes distinctly branched, pubescent like the stem. Leaves: petiole and rhachis pubescent like the stem, with setae aggregated at insertions of pinnae and leaflets; petiole (1.2)2-5.2 cm long; rhachis (excluding terminal pinna) (0)1.8-8 cm long; pinnae 3-7 pairs (sometimes only 1 or 2 pairs present on reduced lower leaves); rhachides of lateral pinnae 1-6.2 cm long, with 3-10 pairs of leaflets; rhachides of terminal pinna 1.4-6.6 cm long, with 3-10 pairs of leaflets; leaflets 5-14 x 2-6.5 mm, usually oblong to elliptic-oblong, glabrous or with sparse hairs usually confined to the midrib and margins. Inflorescence (including peduncle) up to 30 cm long; pedicels (2.5)5-14 mm long in flower; bracts up to 12 x 5 mm, ovate-lanceolate, pubescent, deciduous before the buds open. Calyx with a very short tube, lobes 5, unequal, the lower lobe 6-10.5 x 4-7 mm, the upper ones 5-7 x 1-2 mm. Petals 5, unequal, up to 9x7 mm, recorded as red, terra-cotta, pink and salmon. Stamens 10; filaments alternately longer and shorter, up to 7 mm long. Ovary subsessile, up to 4 x 1.5 mm. Pods obliquely oblong, straight or slightly curved, 2.5-4.5 X 0.9-1.6 cm, usually dark brown, clothed with a dense shaggy pinkish indumentum of plumose setae, especially when young, which tends to obscure the dark glands. Seeds 3 or 4 per pod, ±7.5 x 7 mm.