Citation: Lemaire, Rev. Hort. (1862) 97 subsp. multicava.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Perennials with decumbent branches to 30 cm long, usually little-branched; leaves with petioles 5-20 mm long; lamina broadly oblong-elliptic to almost orbicular, 20-40 x 15-30 mm, with obtuse or emarginate apex, abruptly constricted into the petiole, dorsiventrally flattened and with recurred margins, glabrous, deep-green.

Inflorescence a terminal rounded thyrse borne well above the leaves with adventitious buds developing into new plants after the flowers have been shed; flowers predominantly 4merous; calyx lobes triangular, 1-2 mm long, acute, very fleshy and often ridged, green; corolla saucer-shaped, cream often tinged green or red towards the apices; lobes lanceolate, 3-5 mm long, pointed, spreading; nectary scales transversely oblong, truncate, scarcely fleshy, white; ovaries narrowly oblong-reniform, gradually constricted into slender styles, with 12-20 ovules.

Follicles erect, smooth, dehiscing by an apical pore but flowers usually not fertilised.

Published illustration: Jacobsen (1960) Handb. Succ. Pl. 1: fig. 332.

Distribution:    native to South Africa. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: May — Aug.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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