Rhoicissus kougabergensis Retief & Van Jaarsv.

Spreading shrub with tendency to scramble, covered with equally two-armed, unicellular hairs. Roots thick and fleshy. Tendrils absent. Branches with leaves aligned on one side; old bark greyish white, rough. Leaves simple, petiolate; blade narrowly obovate, (22-)30-55(-65) x (6-)10-22(-27) mm, entire, apex obtuse or slightly emarginate, thick in texture, discolorous with lower surface reddish brown, upper surface glaucous green or both surfaces more or less of the same colour, lower surface more densely hairy; base of blade cuneate or asymmetric; young leaves covered throughout with reddish brown hairs; older leaves pale white or transparent on upper surface; petiole 2-4(-7) mm long; stipules present, soon deciduous. Inflorescences leaf-opposed, ± condensed, reddish brown, bracteate, thyrsoid cymes. Flowers regular, bisexual, pedicellate, globose in bud; pedicels 0.5-1.0 mm long. Calyx 5-lobed, cup-shaped, ± 1 mm high; lobes broadly ovate. Corolla: petals 5, ovate, 1.5-2.0 mm long, greenish yellow. Stamens 5, opposite petals, bending over gynoecium; filaments 1 mm long; anthers dorsifixed. Disc entire with ovary immersed in it. Style simple, entire; stigma inconspicuous. Fruit a 1-seeded berry, globose, 8-10 mm in diameter, stalk ± 1.5 mm long. The pollen grains are typically isopolar and radially symmetrical. In polar view the grains are triangular to circular; the mesocolpia are convex and the equatorial view is elliptic. The colpi are long, narrow and granular with pointed ends; the tectum is reticulate with densely spaced lumina.