Ruschia fugitans L.Bolus

Shrub, ?height, main branches sprawling, branchlets facing to one side. Leaves roundish, smooth, sea-green, sheath with a line. Flowers in cymes, bracteoles small, petals 1 mm broad, reddish purple, filamentous staminodes few, filaments pale to brownish basally, purple apically. Fruit 5-locular, base funnel-shaped, top low, covering membranes with long, protruding closing rodlets, closing body a tiny hook, expanding keels almost touching basally.