Neohenricia

Freely branching, dwarf, prostrate perennials, forming mats less than 20 mm high, often rooting at nodes; mimicking its surroundings and difficult to find; adventitious roots thickened as storage organs. Leaves opposite, 4-6 pairs per branch, +/- erect, somewhat connate at base, trigonous to club-shaped or terete, up to +/- 10 mm long, apex broad, covered by bands of reddish green, orange or greyish green warts. Flowers solitary, +/- 12 mm in diameter, on short, slender, curved pedicels, +/- 20 mm long, without bracts; opening at twilight and closing before dawn; pleasantly scented like pineapple or liquorice. Sepals 5, subequal. Petals 2-seriate, yellowish, pinkish or greenish. Stamens glabrous, epapillate. Nectary an obscurely crenulate ring. Ovary somewhat convex on top; placentation basal to parietal; stigmas 4-6, slender, golden yellow. Fruit a 4-6-locular capsule, of Delosperma type with erect septa; expanding keels parallel, diverging slightly at tips; valve wings 0; covering membranes sometimes well developed, otherwise reduced to a limb; closing devices 0. Seeds pear-shaped, coarse-textured, attached to floor and walls of capsule. F lowering over a long period in summer. D istinguishing characters: minute perennials with strongly textured leaves; pedicels long and slender; flowers nocturnal, highly scented.