Thunbergia capensis Retz.

Scrambler, greyish green, pubescent. Stems prostrate, twining or erect. Leaves sessile or shortly petiolated; petioles up to 7.5 mm long; blade ovate to reniform, 15-33(-50) x 14-38(-47) mm, apex acute, obtuse or emarginate, base cordate, cuneate or truncate, margin lobed or emarginate, trichomes on upper surface orientated in the same direction. Flower bract 10-16 x 8-13 mm. Calyx covered with short stipitate glands and unicellular trichomes; lobes 2.5-4.4 mm long. Corolla with the inner and outer surface of the lobes and the outer surface of the tube as well as part of the inner surface of the tube yellowish green, bottom part of tube on inner surface dull yellowish green; lobes 7-9(-18) x 3-6(-15) mm, tube 2.3-3.5(-20) mm long and 2-7(-10) mm wide. Filaments 3-5.5(-15) mm long; anther thecae without spurs or only one locule of long stamens spurred, thecae 1.5-2(-4) mm long. Style 7.5-8(-12) mm long. Fruit 1.3-24 mm long with bulbous base 6-11 mm in diameter; stalk (18-)25-62(-98) mm long. Seed brown; some trichomes adhere to form comb-like protuberances; 3.2-5 mm in diameter.

It is a Mediterranean climate plant.