Description :

• Shrublets, erect or ascending, sparingly branched; branchlets thickened at nodes, 4-ridged
• Leaves overlapping, obtuse, entire or upper sometimes denticulate to fimbriate, with a dark, lunulate or poriferous apical spot or wart
• Flowers in small, lateral cymes and a single, terminal one; cymes and individual flowers (except terminal) 2-bracteate; bracts somewhat fimbriate and with hyaline margin and a dark, apical wart or areola; lower bracts larger than adjacent leaves
• Perianth : tube narrowly cylindric, 7-12 mm long; lobes ovate or broadly lanceolate, acute, with reduplicate aestivation; purple or partly rose
• Stamens : filaments 0.1-0.3 mm long; anthers ± as long as connective
• Ovary smooth, with 2 ascending ovules in each locule; style terete or slightly angular; stigma relatively large, capitate and somewhat quadrangular

Nomenclature:

• Sonderothamnus R.Dahlgren
  • Dahlgren: 41 (l968)
• Brachysiphon A.Juss.
  • Jussieu: 24, t. 2, fig. 3 (1846) in part
  • Stephens: 90 (1915) in part
  • Dahlgren: 41 (1968) in part
• Sarcocolla Kunth
  • Kunth: 667 (1830) in part
• Sondera proposed name:
  • Dahlgren: 5 (1967)

Distribution & Notes:

• Southern Africa : Species 2, SW Western Cape