Roridula dentata L.

Woody shrubs up to 2 m. Stems brownish, smooth with longitudinal fissures. Leaves crowded on short side branches, the lower early deciduous and often short, with entire margins; upper linear-subulate, up to 5 cm long and 3 mm wide, margins with widely spaced, alternate, ascending, subulate pinnae, the apices ending in several long-stemmed tentacles bearing knob-shaped, apical glands exuding a sticky fluid; short to long tentacles and a white, short to long, sparse to dense pubescence cover the upper surface of the lamina, lower more or less glabrous. Flowers on long hairy pedicels in the axils of the upper leaves or occasionally forming a loose apical raceme, the supporting leaves being reduced to bracts. Sepals linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 10 cm long, glandular-pubescent. Petals obovate, c. 12 mm, pink. Stamens on short filaments 3 mm long, erect, anthers 3.5 mm long, base swollen, black. Ovary ovoid, attenuate, hairy, style ending in a slightly broadened stigma; ovule pendulous, solitary, attached to an axillary placenta. Capsule hidden inside the persistent floral parts, woody, oblong, apiculate; seed oblong in outline, 5 mm long, distinctly honeycombed, brownish-yellow, rough.