Aptosimum decumbens Schinz

decumbens: (of stems) lying on the ground and tending to rise at the end

Spreading more or less prostrate perennial herb. Branches up to 1 m long, densely short-pubescent Leaves subsessile, oblanceolate-oblong, 3-5 cm long, hairless or sparsely glandular pubescent above, more densely below. Flowers axillary, solitary or few together deep blue to violet, darker near the centre, with 2 white markings in the throat of the corolla. Fruit a small capsule, very broadly obovate, laterally compressed, c. 4.5 × 5.5 mm, short-pubescent.

Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa