Source:
SSA
Description:
Small, much-branched subshrubs, rigid and twiggy; young branches very shortly woolly. Leaves alternate or occasionally opposite, sometimes much reduced, fleshy. Inflorescences short to subcapitate spikes, bracteate. Flowers bisexual, solitary in axils of bracts; bracteoles 2. Tepals 5, free, stiffly membranous, subequal, with straight, silky hairs on back. Stamens 5; filaments fused to the quadrate to deltoid, fringed or entire pseudostaminodes; anthers 2-thecous. Ovary ovoid or turbinate, glabrous or downy; ovule solitary, suspended from an elongated basal funicle; style slender; stigma capitate. Capsule thin-walled, indehiscent.
Distribution:
Species 2, confined to sthn Afr., both in Namibia and Northern Cape.
Classification:
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