Ruschia crassisepala L.Bolus

Shrub, ± 200 mm tall. Leaves 3-sided, epidermis smooth. Flowers mainly 1-3(-5) per cyme, 17 mm diam., petals 1.25 mm broad, magenta, filamentous staminodes absent, fertile stamens magenta apically, white basally. Fruit 5-locular, base elongate funnel-shaped, bracteoles at or below the middle of pedicel, top raised, covering membranes rising convexly from a deeper centre, closing rodlets large, closing body a small hollow hook, expanding keels short.