Xysmalobium stockenstromense Scott Elliot

Perennial, geophytic herb, 100-800 mm high; stems solitary, stout at base. Leaves glabrous, glaucous, leathery, lanceolate, 105-200 x 15-45 mm, base rounded to cuneate, apex acuminate, margins crisped; midvein and parallel secondary veins pronounced. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, tightly clustered, globose, 10-20-flowered. Corolla pale green; lobes erect, apex reflexed, velutinous, oblong, 6-10 x 3-5 mm. Staminal column 2-3 mm high, not stipitate. Corona solid, fleshy, scale-like, white tinged purple, obtriangular/subquadrate, 2.0-3.5 mm high, 2.0-3.5 mm wide, contiguous, upper end blunt. Style-stigma-head obtriangular and truncate. Anthers semicircular. Flowering time Dec., Jan. Follicle obliquely ovoid-fusiform, 70-100 x 20-30 mm, with short, recurved, dentate spines, stalk recurved.