Source:
SSA
Description:
Shrublets, much branched, whitish puberulous. Leaves opposite or subfasciculate, small, thick, with revolute margins. Flowers 1-3, subsessile at nodes. Sepals lanceolate, acute, thick. Corolla 5-lobed, somewhat fleshy with campanulate tube; lobes slightly spreading, densely bearded within. Corona 0. Staminal column arising from base of corolla; filaments with horny margin on upper part. Anthers 2-locular, with membranous appendage. Pollinia erect, with short caudicles and corpuscle.
Distribution:
Species l: Rhyssolobium dumosum E. Mey., Namibia and Northern Cape (Namaqualand); very arid, windswept coastal plains with night fog.
Classification:
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