Struthiola salteri Levyns

A low, divaricately branched shrub, from 30-10 cm in height. Bark of the old stems reddish brown, with prominent leaf scars. Young stems with a raised, hairy portion running down from each leaf base to the next node, the rest of the surface glabrous or nearly so. Leaves usually borne in whorls of three, occasionally four, sessile, loosely imbricate, glabrous, ovate, acute or acuminate, veins not conspicuous, light green in colour. Flowers numerous, one in the axil of each of the upper leaves, white. Bracts 2, linear, acute, dark at the tips, keeled, wrapping round the base of the perianth, about four fifths the length of the subtending leaf. Perianth with a slender tube, glabrous outside, about 12 mm long, widening slightly near the top, with 4 ovate-oblong lobes which taper to a sharp point, the two outer lobes more pointed than the inner. Squamae 8, fleshy, narrowly ovoid, yellow, half the length of the perianth segments or a little shorter, surrounded by stiff, white hairs which slightly exceed them in length. Anthers with a conspicuous, more or less triangular connective, truncate or emarginate at the tip. Filament very short. Style about two thirds the length of the perianth tube. Stigma capitellate, covered with sparse, radiating hairs. Ovary glabrous, seated in a small, 4-lobed, glandular cup.